The rise of the machine

[JimC]

I for one welcome our new brain implant overlords...

[Brian Peacock]

Those antivaxxers where all hot and bothered about 5G, microchips and mind control during the pandemic, but if Elon literally wants to put a chip in your head, we'll, that's probably ok right?

[macdoc]

They'd jump all over it if they were also paralysed from the neck down. Distain of science passes quickly when they really need a solution themselves.

Actually ran into a double act ranting climate change denier AND obstreperous antin-vaxxer ....and he says Canadian ...

[JimC]

Implants to combat paralysis (or at least allow the ability to control external machinery) certainly make sense, but I gather that Musk and others see them as a technological adjunct for healthy people. Not so sure about that...

[Brian Peacock]

What's the point of making N-times more money than you could ever spend in a 100 lifetimes, and then only living once for about 100 years tops? Elon's probably the kind of guy to want to become an autonomous silicon mind in a box with ai enhancements to cheat death and stay wealthy, or a never-ending distributed consciousness with human rights and 50,000 transformer robot bodies with laser eyes and shit.