Dying of thirst because someone botched an update that was automatically pushed overnight.
Under rare circumstances, the update from last night could lead to death. Luckily, it only affected 3.14% of our users, causing only a minor dent in our revenues.
Funnily enough, 3.4% is the mortality of COVID.
Didn’t notice, i just entered the first digits of π
When my company provided neuralink with crowdstrike installed crashes and forces me to sleep so I and half the country can’t work the next day
Dying of thirst because Musk never bothered to have someone update his product’s TIME_T to 64-bit.
“We realised we could use the same neural pathways that rabies does. Isn’t it lovely when nature saves a large corporation development money?”
Wasn’t there a movie or show where someone stopped hearing people because of some brainchip fee he didn’t pay?
You might be thinking of upload? Digital afterlife where premium users get to experience everything normally and when you run out of money your bandwidth is limited.
You don’t even need the movies to have some dystopian implant horror. Second sigh used to produce a sight restoring implant. After some financial trouble they stopped manufacturing and support for one of their products. Leaving recipients of the implant sightless in the case the hardware breaks.
One of the later red dwarf episodes has this. The ship gets upgraded to m-corp, which is pay-per-everything, and subscription-based, and as registered crew lister is the only one impacted. He can only see and hear things from m-corp.
When brain implants become compulsory for employment
