- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.
As the MIT Technology Review reports, an Australian woman named Rita Leggett who received an experimental seizure-tracking brain-computer interface (BCI) implant from the now-defunct company Neuravista in 2010 has become a stark example not only of the ways neurotech can help people, but also of the trauma of losing access to them when experiments end or companies go under.
well, knowing, going in, you are signing documents which clearly state that in the event of the bio mod company going out of business, all further support for the mod would end, and the implant would be forced to be removed, then one takes their chances when one decides to try bio mods.
logic would lend itself to governments creating law which says bio mod companies must put aside enough monies to fund ongoing support for the bio mods, for the length of the modded persons natural life.
what that means, and how much money that entails, would be massive, and most likely alter the entire bio mod industry, but seems the only ethical way to proceed.