With how society has reacted to the meta glasses, it has me wondering about optical implants. They’re going to be here eventually, and presumably will have cameras in them out of necessity. I’m sure there will be a whole thing about getting ones that aren’t back doored by a corp, but we are also talking about curing blindness. This isn’t something everyone will skip on due to a fear of surveillance, simply because blindness can be so difficult to live with.
Are we careening towards a deus ex scenario where the majority of humanity villifies and ostracizes anyone with augments? I always expected that to a certain degree, religious folks especially being what they are, but the reaction to smart glasses has me concerned that the discrimination against people with optical implants might be way more extreme than I expected, from groups of people I would have previously considered level headed when it comes to technological advancements.
Anyway, I was just curious to hear from others what their thoughts might be on the subject. Do those of you that despise smart glasses think you’ll have the same moral issues with optical implants? What could be done to avoid the issues you have with the glasses when it comes to implants, if anything? Do you intend to discriminate against people with augments if you live long enough to see them in widespread use?
That hinges on governments actually moving their arse and regulating such technologies. To ensure they would assist disabled folks who need them without becoming just another trojan horse for mass surveillance && ultracapitalist advertisement.
In other words, I can pretty much guarantee that yes, anyone with eye implants will be unwelcome in my circle.
Because governments won’t regulate things done by big tech (let alone something done by a marriage of big tech and big pharma, two of the most powerful corporate overlords).
And so the eye implants will be just as perverted as the AI Pervert Glasses if not even more so.