Can you imagine having that taken away from people if they violate some copywrite, patent, licensing law? If we ever came into legal conflict with the people who owned the implants, we could be disabled at the point when we most need them.
This reminds me of some of the themes brought up in movies like the original Robocop (memory wiped, owned by company and classified as h/w which he rebels against) and the Bourne Legacy (agent has medically upgraded mental capacity which was slowly diminishing). There's probably better fiction out there that looks at this kind of thing.
I suppose this all applies to devices that we use right now, but to have them seamlessly operating within and throughout ourselves just seems like a somewhat more dangerously intimate relationship with profiit-oriented businesses.
If Shepard selects Synthesis, we'll have some kind of alien (Reaper?) s/w running inside ourselves, which initially no one could assert ownership over, but once people started developing and selling upgrades....
If Synthesis happens naturally, we'll have corporate owned s/w running within us, and have businesses and corporations asserting ownership of our own capabilities. Something similar is actually happening now in the US (world?) with genetic patents.
Modifié par Obadiah, 21 janvier 2014 - 07:38 .
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Thank you for that.
