Ask A Genius 928: More Chapters in Rick’s Forever Book
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/04/21
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Rick Rosner: I’m just going through my chapter outlines here. Yesterday I think, we were talking about how we are used to crappy service and glitches and hacking of our devices. So, even though we’ve got these cutting-edge devices and tech that stream more information into our homes than ever before, we’re also used to crappy service from these services and devices. Yesterday, we were talking about how the more intimately linked we become with our devices, the more dangerous and disturbing glitches and failures will be. If you’re an 80-year-old in not perfect health and you’ve got brain implants, like, I mean right now we’ve got 1% of the US population roughly, I think, with some implanted device that does some sort of computation. People with Parkinson’s can have pacemakers implanted in their brains that help regulate their movement because Parkinson’s affects your ability to initiate movement and gives you tremors, and the pacemakers implanted around the pituitary or one of your glands that’s part of your brain help control Parkinson’s. You’ve probably got probably more people with all the implanted devices. Pacemakers we probably got the most significant number of them. You have insulin pumps, you have precise implants for people with deafness, and so on.
These are more basic devices than the devices to come. Glitches in the future devices will kill people. Another way that they might go is, say you’re that 80-year-old and your brain is and you have early or maybe even more progressed cognitive decline. You’re helped thinking by implants that either help you think locally or link you to a device in your house that might be 30 feet away that helps your thinking. You might have balance issues like falling, which kills a ton of older people. So, maybe wearing an armature robotic leg that gives you stability and glitches in these things will be more dangerous than glitches in our iPhones.
If you’re like a hard-charging young executive with a brain implant that lets you think faster and digest more extensive data than somebody with an unaugmented brain, what if somebody hacks? Or say you’re just a gamer having a chip in your head. It makes you better at gaming, and it makes it more immersive and gives you sensations that you couldn’t have without the implant and, say, somebody hacks into these things. So, you could have people’s opinions being changed; they might be compelled to commit acts of violence or be hijacked by sex slavers, or the most reliable crime is a financial crime; somebody gets in there and steals access to your accounts or compels you to turn over your stuff. So, that’s going to be a thing, and 100% of that kind of thing will happen.
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