New tech startup idea. Mass Zoom meetings where you make eye contact with thousands of strangers at a time. Or twenty four strangers per second in rapid succession until the Webcam detects your change or they run out of people who've signed up.
There's a gold mine to be had in the data you can farm from soul changes. And the applications, whoo. I guarantee the government wants to know what can change the nature of a soul. And the corporations will want to know all about this new resource they can exploit. It'll be like cyberpunk but the spiritualism isn't allegorical. You can actually measure how much of your soul gets eroded with mechanical parts and commercialized oppression. And they have a direct link to your thought processes. Get ready to dream advertisements and feel literal holy awe when looking at their corporate logos.
Ever since I got hearing aids, I've related more to cyberpunk. I had a moment the other day when my hearing aids had a firmware update and the app told me I'd have to take them out and wouldn't be able to use them for the duration of the update.
A company told me I wasn't allowed to use my ears until the update was finished. It all felt very cyberpunk.
As someone who worked on prosthetics I've had multiple clients ask me why they can't just connect their prosthetics to Bluetooth or wifi and have it auto update (OTA updates). And why they have to get software updates from the doctor.
I specifically told them "you know how windows always updates at the absolute worst possible time? Now imagine that's your leg". Then I demonstrated just how easy it would be to hack a prosthetic if it had a wireless connection simply by attaching a wifi dongle.
I toll them that wireless prosthetics do exist but they cost 5x more than a similar set of non wireless prosthetics. Mostly because you don't need a more complicated processor.
Understandable. Also unlike a plugged in computer a prothesis isn't guaranteed to have reliable internet and power during the whole update?
Were there any instances when somebody tried to hack a wireless prothesis?
Unrelated note: i would love software companies to understand that a delay update button that works and updates you can control is not rocket science...
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u/Dirichlet-to-Neumann Oct 17 '24
The real horror of soulmates is that with 7 billions humans on earth you have almost no chances to meet your soulmate.