[Angelino97]

This means patients with severe degenerative diseases like ALS will regain their ability to communicate with loved ones by moving cursors, typing and even accessing social media with their minds.

Even accessing social media?

One of the few good things about degenerative brain disease is being free of social media.

[alexander_busek]

[B]ecause the device isn’t inserted directly into the brain tissue [...]

...yet!

Imagine getting unwanted pop-ups and spam directly via your VISUAL CORTEX!

Regards,

[Sirius Lee]

The procedure is also reversible if patients decide they no longer want the implant or want newer versions in the future.

Well, except that, once implemented, the government/corporatist complex that control the implants will be doing the deciding for the patients from now on.

[Bob434]

[[Precision Neuroscience, co-founded by Neuralink alum, is creating a brain implant thinner than a human hair]]

All I can say is that I hope they don’t try implanting them in barber shops. Imagine the panic if they dropped it on the floor

[fruser1]

Aw, that takes all the fun out of things.

It’s much more entertaining to observe the randomly induced effects of directed radio waves and blood/brain boundary crossing vaccines.

[curious7]

If they can do that, they can probably control motorized wheelchairs (or exoskeletons), depending on the feedback loop they have to use.