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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 11 months ago by yesdogishere@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Upload is a pretty good show about it.

But in that show if you didn't have money, you didn't get "up time".

So the wealthy were able to live relatively normal "lives" but if your account ran dry you'd lose all you shit. Maybe even to the point where you're only "on" for a few hours a month and even then you lagged behind everyone and instead of an avatar you were just a face on a screen.