Not so much “Skynet” as “Wire-heads”.
As soon as the scum of the earth hack how to do it the druggies will have the ultimate high.
Zap directly to the pleasure center of the brain!
Of course like so many things overuse will deaden the nerve, so keep increasing the voltage until that part of the brain is fried.
What does the addict do then, when pleasure is dead for them, assuming they survive?
I’m not seeing this sort of cyborg activity as progress.
The ‘Droud’ implant of Laurence van Cott Niven, depicted as a drug-free perpetual high encompassing all human vices.
Micro-second symmetric pulses trigger neuron firing without resulting in substantial ion migration. There is potential to train neuron clusters to produce a sustained patterned firing.