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1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 11:44:33 UTC deutrino

   Bionic eye recipients left in the dark with obsolete tech

   It happened to more than 350 people who are blind and received artificial eyes only to be abandoned by the company that invented them, Second Sight Medical Products.

   The risk for early adopters is that their high-tech implants turn into just another obsolete gadget.

   "If something does go wrong with it, I'm screwed," said Terry Byland, a double-implant recipient. "Because there's no way of getting it fixed."

   https://www.axios.com/bionic-eye-recipients-left-in-the-dark-with-obsolete-tech-23946ccc-518e-4be7-b074-bce1f9287c95.html

   • deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 11:44:32 UTC deutrino

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     demand open source medical tech??

     profit motive ruins everything it touches in the fields of medicine and social media, I'm convinced of it. what other fields?

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   • deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:28:48 UTC deutrino

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     • hypolite

     @hypolite I'm inclined to agree, but haven't specifically thought it through with fields other than social media or health care in a modern context.

     I should probably get around to actually reading Marx, heh

   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:28:48 UTC hypolite

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     • hypolite
     @deutrino Finance: Subprime crisis.
     Power: Texas blackouts.
     Water: Nestlé hoarding natural sources to sell plastic bottles.
     Farming: Monsanto.
     Education: Charter schools.
     Manufacture: Anti-suicide nets, prison labor.
     Retirement homes: Mistreatments.
     Religion: Joel Osteen's megachurch.
     Entertainment: Hollywood, Video game studio concentration.
     Software: Bill Gates.
     Internet: Privacy nightmare.
     Healthcare: 1 in 3 GoFundMe campaigns are to cover medical bills.
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   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:28:50 UTC hypolite

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     @deutrino Absolutely every single field. Finance, power and water, farming, education, manufacture, retirement homes, religion, entertainment, software, Internet, etc…
   • deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:29:47 UTC deutrino

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     • hypolite

     @hypolite Most of these are great examples, I guess one thing I'm wondering is, is it possible to have a non centrally planned economy without profit motive? it may well be, I'm ignorant of a lot of the thinking on these issues.

   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:29:47 UTC hypolite

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     • hypolite
     @deutrino I don't have an academic answer to this but pragmatically it seems to boil down to "No", although my perception is warped by the historical fact that capitalist countries have stymied any remote attempt using economic sanctions, military threats and covert ops actions including assassinations and plotting coups so we probably will never know.
     
     At a smaller scale, communes seem to be held together around central figures who started it, and crumble when they move on/pass away. Tribal people living outside the capitalist world also have central authority figures, so I don't think that you can completely remove the central planning.
     
     Profit motive or not, hierarchy still is the most effective way of governing any kind of society, from tribes to video game guilds and countries.
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   • n8chz ⒶⒺ (n8chz@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:30:00 UTC n8chz ⒶⒺ

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     • hypolite

     @hypolite @deutrino

     Code I advocate is, businesses have a right to attempt to safeguard trade secrets, but hackers have a right to attempt to reverse engineer technologies. Reputable engineering careers, like reputable science careers, would be "publish or perish," with more emphasis this time on perishment of research than that of researchers. "Legit research (AND development!) is published research" would be a good social norm. Otherwise society becomes a cargo cult.

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   • Coffee (coffee@toot.cafe)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:46:42 UTC Coffee

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     • 💀Undead Bill💀

     @bill
     I would go one further and require that they immediately and continuously share all knowledge, including source code, schematics and documentation, with a government agency which holds it in escrow until the company goes bankrupt or otherwise fails to support its users.

     An organization at the threshold of falling over may no longer be able to gather and transfer the required knowledge, insofar as it hasn't already been lost.

     @deutrino

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   • 💀Undead Bill💀 (bill@bsd.network)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:46:46 UTC 💀Undead Bill💀

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     @deutrino
     There should be a requirement that medical device companies open source their equipment if they close their business or transfer their IP.