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it's worse, the for-profit company spun up to privatize the gains of that public research went bankrupt and put their patients into a cyberpunk hell of having to crowdsource parts and repairs for their cybernetic eyes
Yeah that whole situation is fucked up.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
WHAT THE FUCK
WE HAVE BIONIC EYES BUT NO ONE IS MAKING THEM ANYMORE?? THEY """"MOVED ON"""" TO OTHER TECHNOLOGY AND JUST GHOSTED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING AROUND WITH UNMAINTAINED BIONIC IMPLANTS?? WE HAVE BIONIC FUCKING EYES AND MUSK WANTS TO FUND HIS MONKEY BRAIN TORTURE IMPLANTS INSTEAD???
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