OhPleaseJustQuit
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.It is if you're disabled or have some certain medical conditions.
Many of the top scientists in the world are working on the brain-computer interface.
There's a guy named Marmarelis at USC who can freeze (turn off) the hippocampus in a live rat and replace it with a computer, and the rat will still navigate mazes and learn.
We have people with color blindness, people missing limbs, deaf people (which is already being done, by companies like Advanced Bionics), ... the list goes on.
The potential for curing illness is tremendous. Implants could eventually replace drugs as the treatment of choice, because most drugs are nonspecific and have plenty of side effects.
But scruffy, you are intelligent enough to know that they will never settle for using the technology only for benevolent purposes.
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