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title = "Even bionic implants are being abandoned by companies"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-07-09T22:22:00+02:00
categories = ["blog"]
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weight = 2002
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abstract = "Tech world is trying to be the absolute worst"
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Just when I thought tech can't get any worse, companies are abandoning working implants.

> … Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt.
> While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case.
> “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”

Long story short: we have working vision-implants (of which I didn't know until today).
They were implanted into patients with varying success, but they mostly improve patient's life quality.

And then the company loosing financing.

Let that sink in: at the same time bullshitting generators are dawning in cash, actual marvels of technology are dawning in debt.
We have remarkable technology, but VCs ruin it, again.
I mostly react with sadness to such stories, but not this time.
This time I finished the article with real anger.
I'm reading of the single coolest piece of tech in **ages**, and then it'd all horror and the worst aspects of capitalism.

[Read the full article on IEEE](https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete).