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Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will (futurism.com)
submitted 3 months ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.

As the MIT Technology Review reports, an Australian woman named Rita Leggett who received an experimental seizure-tracking brain-computer interface (BCI) implant from the now-defunct company Neuravista in 2010 has become a stark example not only of the ways neurotech can help people, but also of the trauma of losing access to them when experiments end or companies go under.

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

On the bright side, she no longer has Johnny Silverhand living in her head and complaining about all her decisions.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

The fun thing is that half the time Johnny complains, you gain approval with him anyway. He may bitch about you stopping to save random folks and talk about how it won't actually change anything, but he still approves deep down. He also approves if you call him on his bullshit, which is a nice change from most RPGs requiring you to be absurdly supportive of your party's awful decisions to top off that approval meter.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

WaKe Up SaMuRaI

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

wait do you guys not have that?? i dont have johnny but it's just whatever fictional thing im currently obsessed with /genq

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