What terrifies me about this is that there are no regulations or laws in place that say how long this tech that is implanted into people must be supported. Those poor people who got the bionic eye implants are now left with no replacement parts or support after the company went under, leaving those with implants that still work seeing with borrowed time.
My car isn’t even getting updates anymore and it’s fewer than ten years old. I’ll never put tech in my body until it’s legally required to be supported, and also open source so I can support it
I wonder if companies should be forced to provide a product’s core tech diagrams, material science, and major code base revisions to a kind of escrow, which is then released when the product is sunsetted.
What terrifies me about this is that there are no regulations or laws in place that say how long this tech that is implanted into people must be supported. Those poor people who got the bionic eye implants are now left with no replacement parts or support after the company went under, leaving those with implants that still work seeing with borrowed time.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
My car isn’t even getting updates anymore and it’s fewer than ten years old. I’ll never put tech in my body until it’s legally required to be supported, and also open source so I can support it
I wonder if companies should be forced to provide a product’s core tech diagrams, material science, and major code base revisions to a kind of escrow, which is then released when the product is sunsetted.
That would be ideal. If you’re not going to support it anymore, then you shouldn’t be allowed to keep the knowledge of it locked up.