I use custom degoogled rom and custom DNS server on my phone, so I minimized the tracking to minimum.

Either way brain chip and phone are a lot different. One you can easily discard, other one you cant. I don't want to dream coca cola ads at night. What happens when they stop supporting / updating it. There is probably something in their contract, where they can force you back on the operating table to take the chip back, if they don't like something that you did, or they are running out of money etc.

Yep I agree with your agreement, I can totally see the next generations being amazed by viewing short videos without even having the fatigue of holding a phone.

If I have a shitty phone the worst case scenario is I throw it away...

blind/paralyzed person might feel a bit differently about that.

Yeah, because they're forced into that position due to circumstance.

Which is exactly why able-bodied people should be free to criticise this model and call for open source alternatives.

To protect people that have been rendered incapable of protecting themselves.

Sure but experimental technology is still pretty risky, especially with Musk's companies tendency to cover up any issues. Ending up brain damaged on top of blind and paralyzed would be a nightmare.

A blind person? Sure - there are ways to "cure" blindness by inserting chips into the brain, so I'll give them a pass. Paralyzed people, on the other hand, won't regain control of their own limbs, only have external actuators respond to their thoughts - we already had that technology. We've had it for decades, without the need of a brain implant.

No comment about the topic, im just stealing the emoji. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞