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wow. no one in this century will allow something in their body that hasn't been tested on animals (i.e. other biological systems where unknown variables are already set at some "ground truth" level that, at best, barely approximates the conditions needed for life in a different species...) 

just updating

No

Way

Period.

the level of elitism this would engender (assuming it worked as advertised, i.e. to allow for faster "thought" or direct interfacing with databases or even less profound integration with electronics/data) would be insanity, and that's bad enough as it is.

more importantly, the entire ethical underpinning for offering BCIs to less able-bodied individuals is that they're "in need" (and "we need that data!"); I think changing that rationale will take a movement of some kind that I imagine is on the scale of >>5 years not even considering FDA approval rates or timelines.

my understanding of these (neurodegenerative) issues is that they're heavily based on not getting enough oxygen to the most distal (from capillaries) tissues, which leads to damage, which leads to complex systems falling apart and thus inflammation to clean it up; if that's right, then yeah there's a ton of overlap in the latter part of the problem, but I think i'd expect drugs to go the other way seeing as TBI is more general than and shares later processes with a specific neurodegenerative disease...

anyway, mostly yes, but that does depend on well-funded research and/or some spunky AI up-and-comers

plus there's no re-predicting, so i'll go all-in.

I saw a lot of "less regulatory hurdles" for environmental sensors, and although I can't imagine people wanting to live in a world attuned to every fish's fart, I'd forgotten my favorite doomsday scenario in which our phones are co-opted to spy on our environments....even more so. So if personal electronics start becoming environmental sensors, there's even more definitions to worry about. (so i weighted it more heavily against my other contender)

...also reduced implantables because who wants implantables when you can just wear it? not I.

but this question is actually "which will win more money this decade?", and since i don't plan on re-predicting, I'm confident enough in personal bioelectronics to go with it.