When Implants Are Removed
As we're learning more and more about the brain and its functions, various companies are developing implantable devices to help people with various medical conditions. However, what happens when those devices are taken out, whether because of problems with them, or because the company is running out of funding? And what rights do patients have to say no?
As I read it, I immediately started thinking of the backstory of the Chaffee Artilect stories -- are technologies like these, and legal cases about their removal, important in the development of the sort of implant technology Toni has? And how does it relate to the periodic moral panics about full-sensory-immersion gaming?
As I read it, I immediately started thinking of the backstory of the Chaffee Artilect stories -- are technologies like these, and legal cases about their removal, important in the development of the sort of implant technology Toni has? And how does it relate to the periodic moral panics about full-sensory-immersion gaming?