Maybe in 50 years workers will be forced to impant this thing. Imagine your boss screaming at you literally in your brain because neuralink is telling him you feel lazy!
What can be abused will be abused!
What can be abused will be abused!
What you're describing is so far beyond any social issue of today in terms of egregious and horrifying threats to society that it would just get voted out of existence so hard you'd barely know it was ever a risk.
Nobody will ever let thought intrusion come to pass.
I don't think this will come to pass as a mandate from on high, but it might come to pass as a practical device that everyone needs to function in modern society.
Or you're in an authoritarian regime where not having an implant may result in longer lines, less financing options, no plane access, harder train access, and direct pressure on/from friends.
I'm not worried about those things happening in Canada tomorrow though.
More simply put, things we'd give people felonies for tech companies (and others) get a pass.
I could believe this dystopian future, especially as political forces continue to form stern camps whose only substantive difference is an opposing view to the other.
They are just as likely to create policies to the benefit of their wallet, especially when they do not comprehend a topic.
Human rights will take steps backwards if it's necessary to keep an economic advantage.
If thought intrusion has any productivity value, a less scrupulous nations will take that advantage, and deregulation by more scrupulous nations will be re-framed as gaining necessary competitive advantage, and will be demanded by unemployed citizens and business minds alike.
They've managed to do a few other pretty evil things recently, though. And they're going to keep trying until they get it through. They only have to win once, and then no government is going to voluntarily give up the extra power and control.
I would love to have some sort of cybernetic implant, but I suspect mature commercial applications will only be developed after my lifetime
new technology will always empower more positive change than negative.
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