Leggett informed researchers that she “grew to become one” together with her system. It helped her to regulate the unpredictable, violent seizures she routinely skilled, and allowed her to take cost of her personal life. So she was devastated when, two years later, she was informed she needed to take away the implant as a result of the corporate that made it had gone bust.
The removing of this implant, and others prefer it, would possibly signify a breach of human rights, ethicists say in a paper revealed earlier this month. And the problem will solely grow to be extra urgent because the mind implant market grows within the coming years and extra folks obtain gadgets like Leggett’s. Learn the total story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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