technology

I don't excuse China, it can still be a problem. Managed capitalism, even if well managed, is playing with fire and still dangerous.

still I'm not sticking one in my head until it's completely open source(software and hardware schematics)and can run openBSD on it(and have a seizure everytime I encounter a driver issue lol)

Honestly yeah this is kind of a game over for the hopes of revolution type tech if taken far enough in terms of interfacing with things like memory if they have enough time for mass deployment. You could instantly detect anti-capitalist thought and report it or detonate the chip, perhaps even program and indoctrinate people repeatedly depriving them of free will. If it gets to the point the capitalists can do that we're fucked, it's just over for us. That plus AI plus automation and robotics is a bad mix. Under socialism it would of course be amazing and to great benefit but I deeply fear what happens if this tech gets advanced enough to more than read but also write which seems inevitable. At that point they just pressure the population into them, especially those most likely to revolt while allowing top white collar workers to opt out for the time being.

I don't know, no good answer, if China doesn't do this work someone else will but I almost think it's the type of thing that should be done in absolute secret by security vetted individuals. There's no way the west allows Chinese brain chips anywhere near us so we'll never see the benefit anyways.

I'd settle for a Mao Zedong Thought implant

They'll put on the implant, but instead of speaking mandarin you'll start speaking Maoist Standard English

This was one of the final plots of the show "Dollhouse." People with cybernetic implants could store memories on external drives and swap them out as needed or make copies. So if you wanted to learn Mandarin, you could load up a native speaker's memories and copy them over to your brain, then replace it with something else if you wanted to free up space in your head.

And of course, there's The Matrix.

According to the article they're developing it for people who've been paralyzed in accidents (Specifically spinal cord injuries), so that they can control either their existing limbs or prosthesis using their mind. It's intended as a disability aid.

The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

Several inaccurate or erroneous conceptions and misleading propaganda about brain-computer interfaces

Most of that is scifi copium propagated by mainstream media from my understanding (its been over 7 years since I have since I was involved in academics related to BCI and at least back then from what I remember there were restrictions with our brains that made it seem impossible for sci fantasy applications like downloading/uploading your brain, uploading skills to your brain, reading your thoughts, using the internet with your mind, gaining superhuman augemented intelligence, etc (I feel like its more nanotechnology territory if done in conjunction but idk things look far less plausible and limiting when you start learning and I don't really know anything about nanotechnology and I am out of touch with how far neuroscience and BCI has progressed by now)) and the applications are primarily treating disabilities and neurological conditions. Also BCI can also be non invasive like this keyboard input with P300 waves and there are opensource boards for that which you could buy yourself but they are expensive. Misconceptions are especially dangerous here since it is being used for something law enforcement (I remember reading recently about the Indian government using BCI for checking if someone is guilty or not, it gets rejected by their highest level of court but on lower levels it gets accepted as evidence if they consent to the tests and the expensive kits [efficacy of such a system isextremely questionable and it faced criticism but we live in a capitalist dystopia and those expensive kits are sold by some corpo])

Human testing is inherently without monkeys

Altered Carbon

I think they did a red dwarf episode about that, showing Rimmer's eulogy and how he'd envisioned himself and the crew

a fun short story on the subject https://archive.org/details/ted-chiang-the-truth-of-fact-the-truth-of-feeling