These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.

  • El_guapazo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This was the plot line to the movie Robots. The solution was socialized medicine.

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      10 months ago

      A more sinister example was Repo Men. In that movie, the tech still worked, but people were no longer able to keep up with the extortionate payments that came with the implant.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah no wonder that was only in a sci fi movie, that really just sounds too unrealistic.

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      10 months ago

      Fuck me I haven’t watched that in some time…time for a rewatch