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What so far seem to have aged badly is the concept of devices interacting with your brain directly (unless massive cultural engineering), augmenting thoughts or whatever. Would you give permission to Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft to put thoughts directly in your consciousness? Ads and political manipulation are 2 things that the current us see as immediate and very probable misuse of that capability.

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I would not but I think the general public is not against the idea. Most people interact with social media on a daily basis, for example, and it certainly has a strong effect on users thought process.

A little bit different than actually having a chip in your head doing these things, which I do think most of the general public would be very skeptical abiout, particularly as doom and gloom have overtaken much of the technical optimism about the future. And corporations are seen as leading us to a dystopian outcome.

Have you checked your screen time lately?

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