And here I am thinking about the potential benefits to para- and quadriplegics of circumventing a damaged spinal cord if only we could reliably interpret signal from the brain.
For all the bad you've listed, there's a reason people voluntarily choose to carry those surveillance devices in their pockets: the boons outweigh the ills by an order of magnitude. They're rarely dwelt upon because they're ubiquitous... much like nobody bothers to extol the virtues of fire.
We talk here about what's wrong because there is room for improvement, not because we should halt progress.
For all the bad you've listed, there's a reason people voluntarily choose to carry those surveillance devices in their pockets: the boons outweigh the ills by an order of magnitude. They're rarely dwelt upon because they're ubiquitous... much like nobody bothers to extol the virtues of fire.
We talk here about what's wrong because there is room for improvement, not because we should halt progress.