Three children receive 'best Christmas present in the world' - bionic arms
Eight year old Zoey Hampton-Pigeon, 11 year old Finn Jarvis, and eight year old Ettie Baker were all given their new bionic arms this week
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does the "open" have any relationship with open source design, or is it just a bullshit marketing tag? I have browsed their site and seen nothing
Definitely just marketing. Otherwise they would be vocal about it being open source.
Don't be a gonk an idiot, they're prosthetics. I appreciate that if I lose my arms I can replace them, but who WANTS to get cybernetics if they can help it? Advertising to the public would be unethical even if it is open source, you want to advertise this to doctors, and even then only within the existing niche. Cybernetics as a commonplace thing were never meant to be more than a 1980s action sci-fi Hollywood fever dream.
I get it. To a degree, we're living in a dystopia, a real one. It's entirely sane to say "the rich did this" and want them to suffer. It's sane to be bothered they're currently getting away with it. Doesn't mean people are stupid, it just means social Darwinism is no different than running civilization as if civilization never existed. The rich right now are generally competently evil, and unfortunately that is what capitalism enforces. "Market forces" and "supply and demand" are just a pretty way to describe "survival of the status quo" because the status quo has always been "ooh, babies are weak and delicious!" because that's how things work in the wild.
This is not the wild. This is not how things should be, regardless if that's "how it's always been". But this is a world where some stories come true. Miami 2017 was written and first sung long before 9/11, MegaMan Battle Network was right on the 00 Green, and Inception was onto something about dreams, if a story has already been written it isn't somehow magically made falsehood.
Uhm. I think you misunderstood me. With more vocal i meant their current advertising material. There are people who need prosthetics you can advertise towards. Or Doctors who work with prosthetics. Although i can understand your criticism, I think it is misplaced here.
Fair enough. I guess I mixed you up with whoever was being a defeatist "only the rich will afford it" about something that has not yet become true. Believing something will come true because "that's how everything works" just hastens that type of world, because if enough people act like that's how it works then it becomes the norm. I'm only a pessimist because I like to be pleasantly surprised, but that level of cynicism is... grating, to say the least.
If it shouldn't be true, refuse to support the mindset needed to survive in such a world. Otherwise your mindset is already exactly who wealthy assholes want you to be, a wage slave who sells their morals to whoever scares them more. Better to die believing in not hurting people for personal gain, a hero, than to live believing that someone successfully stabbing you in the back is a fate worse than death.
In short, strength is a weakness if you live only to stay alive, too many people online say they think there is no hope whatsoever, but I confused you with one of them and sorry about that.
