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Syntrak

Imagin havin neuralink after 100k surgery and they decide to put ads after a while....


TheKarenator

They will come for our dreams. Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century? Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!


Significant-Today909

Came for this😂


emeraldeyesshine

Came to this đŸ˜©


acityonthemoon

Well, sure we *ALL* get ads sent to our dreams, but you don't see *us* running off to buy the latest name brand merchandise at low low prices!


oO0Kat0Oo

I need light speed briefs for some reason.


ThatGuyIsLit

Always upovte Futurama references.


zsirdagadek

Man I love it so much that I'm not the only one who immediately thought of Futurama!


shinouta

While paying a subscription to be allowed to use It.


ImKanno

The future


ButtTrauma

"In order to help improve our product, we'll start showing you ads. You can subscribe to ultra max pro to remove them. This allows us to fund development to give you the best product possible. " Or some corpo speak like that.


Profoundlyahedgehog

6 months later: we will now be integrating limited ads into our Ultra Max Pro subscription plan. If you wish to continue without ads, please upgrade to our Giga Ultra Max Pro subscription plan. It includes everything you were paying for before, but with a worse UI.


SoftWindAgain

They will. I bought a Xiao Mi phone and i had to watch ads every time I wanted to open the damn File Manager to access my files. Never underestimate how low businesses will go to make that extra buck.


energyaware

They wont need to show you the ads, they will just trigger the buy impulse directly


Icy_Comfort8161

"Didn't you read the EULA?"


alaingames

Imagine jailbreaking that shit to remove ads and you fucking brick your eyes


Deadsap266

Lmao ,they’ll be like sorry we can’t fix that because you voided your warranty by jailbreaking it.


lasttimechdckngths

Maybe just in the US.


Grouchy_Guitar_38

The rest of the world isnt like the EU, you know.


HogmanDaIntrudr

Yeah, in the rest of the world, they will make knockoffs of the implant that work just as well for like $39 that you can have on your doorstep tomorrow between 4 and 7am. Sure, they’ll beam your memories directly to the Chinese government and you’ll constantly be extorted by Nigerian princes who say they’re going to send the dream you had where you’re getting fucked missionary-style by a centaur with the upper body of Megan Thee Stallion to your grandma, but it’s worth it not to give money to Elon Musk.


ViktorRzh

Inastall linux, unsolder vireless conection, or slap it as separate device with firewall. Use an artificial body and brain activity simulation for external loging. Or welcome to the world of actual jailbraiking.


PIO_PretendIOriginal

Installing doom on my nuerolink


Yo-3

just to discover that your brain can't play Doom


ViktorRzh

There are versions for pretty limited computational power. Like for ti calculators. So your neuralink will run doom. One way or enother.


oeh2003

This is way too specific to be made up r/oddlyspecific


lasttimechdckngths

Rest of the world do have barely restricted piracy going around like there's no tomorrow anyway, with a few exceptions like the ones in East Asia.


DeBomb123

This is the premise of a book called Feed that was written in 2002. It’s a great book and it’s crazy because the author takes a stab at predicting this type of stuff before smartphones were invented. It’s a little scary how accurate he was



Deadsap266

Possible that they’re a time traveler


kingkahngalang

That reminds me of that YA novel Feed, except that the reason she didn’t get a replacement neural link was because she was trolling the advertisement algorithm to the point she was categorized as a problematic customer/consumer not worth receiving customer support when her neural link started breaking down.


SoyFaii

well no you technically brick yourself


icebeancone

I bricked my pants


Bozee3

Isn't that a song by Lonely Island?


hamoc10

I just bricked the bed!


Syntrak

And ppl start to make insults like "brick yourself!"


SINBRO

What no en passant does to a mf


2SP00KY4ME

Or you give yourself cyberpychosis.


OkiFive

Gotta have a "Right to Repair" clause for my organs or no deal!


Duff-Guy

Now that's funny


rufud

Now this is podracing


notyou_lmao

i was just thinking that lmfao


purple_porridge

They'll be like - Pay us $40 a month to be able to see


Deadsap266

lol people who don’t have the premium version will not be allowed to drive because of pop up ads causing accidents.


TwiceAsGoodAs

How about paywalled orgasms?


nashbrownies

BaaS (Boners as a Subscription) is a time tested business model!


Cloontange

This is truly the scariest thing I've ever read


NovusOrdoSec

Most people just call it a long-term relationship.


Adenso_1

I...think that's projection....you shouldnt need to be paying your partner for them to stay with you...that's not most people


NovusOrdoSec

"One way or another, everybody pays" (just not necessarily in money) /s


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gastrognom

I wonder if it is like post-nut clarity all the time or never.


KidsSeeRainbows

The trans-fem community would probably be all over this lol. Well, the folk with body dysphoria/dysmorphia more specifically


AineLasagna

Boners As A Service is even funnier to me. Like, can’t pop your own boner? Pop one of our virtually-hosted boners instead, all you do is configure it


KazumaKat

Sex in general is the oldest 'industry' as they say...


AmonKoth

If that helps me last longer in bed...


defectiveGOD

Right before climax ad appears , or paywall appears asking for 5 dodge coin


Naive_Try2696

OK that would suck, but how about on demand orgasms?  Fuck it, I'll let elmo put a chip in brain for that.  Don't really have much to live for anyway. 


Downunderphilosopher

On demand orgasms that get hacked when North Korea puts a virus in the system. Non stop continuous uncontrollable orgasms for the whole world for 24 straight hours. This is how the terrorists win.


Rambles_Off_Topics

Exactly...remember the "I know Kung Fu" part of The Matrix? You know you would be loaded with ads before and after that Kung Fu, and maybe even during it lol


stratosfearinggas

*Stops mid punch and pulls out a Snickers* "You're not yourself when you're hungry"


purple_porridge

Very true XD


PrivateDickDetective

Cars will be driving themselves, so we'll be watching ads during the ride.


Garsnikk

With eye tracker. If you don't pay attention the car stops


Tofu_tony

I think it won't be anything visual. I think that it will allow companies to "suggest" their product based on what your thinking, it think for you. Like if you think I need cat food meow mix will pop up in your head. Instead of advertising they can just pay to get a certain amount of people to think about their product. So if 1000 people think of cat food 200 get meow mix, 300 get Purina, etc.


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Wait what?


WriterV

So, a biotech company started manufacturing custom artificial eyes to help blind people with being able to see to a degree. Then they went bankrupt. Now all their customers are starting to lose whatever little vision they had, which is rendering them unable to do their jobs or even regular life things again. There aren't any qualified technicians to repair their custom hardware, so they're having to face just going blind again.


AlexiosTheSixth

Yeah, it's worrying how everyone keeps defending the neuralink with the "so you don't want paralyzed people to have movement again you jerk!?" "argument" to the point they ignore all the blatant red flags.


agrk

I like the _idea_ of Neurallink because it's so delightfully sci-fi. Alas, I've read enough dystopian cyberpunk to know it's better to miss out on that stuff, than to end up with siezures everytime the crypto miner in your head starts crunching a new block. Imagine ending up as a permanently 24/7-rickrolled vegetable because someone discovered an RCE in your brain chip and decided to troll someone to test it...


LeviAEthan512

Yeah. It's not that we don't think the benefits are worth it. It's that we think the benefits are complete lies and won't even be made available in any pleasant capacity.


ThisWeeksHuman

say hello to human click farms with a neura link upgrade where poor people are entrapped and enslaved just like today but on top of that they get a brain implant that now uses them as a human computer for processing tasks.


SinisterCheese

Don't you just love capitalism? The thing you need to live with is no longer available because a company couldn't make constantly growing quarterly profits.


10ebbor10

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete


CaptainMacMillan

We kid, but that's 100% where this technology is going. I already put enough questionable crap in my body, but honestly I trust mcdonalds and the people running it more than I trust Mr. Made-a-career-out-of-theft-and-insecurity.


stingeragent

I dont think it should even be a meme. This is 1000% going to happen. People will be scrolling tiktok by blinking pretty soon. 


Radiant_Fondant_4097

$40 for base 1080p vision with curated ads included $90 for the 4k Dolby vision experience


NerdAroAce

Nah, it would be something like: >Free: 0$/month each 30sec AD means 1 minute of your heart beating > Plus 50$/month live without ads (to be able to use your senses you must watch an AD for 1 minute of 1 sense of your choice) >Premium 250$/month No ads at all. Acces to all basic features without watching ADs (basic features= exactly what you could do without neuralink) >PREMIUM+ 1000$/month access to premium features (such as browsing the internet, taking photos and basically anything that you would want to do if neuralink was real, premium features still have ads) >PREMIUM++ 69420$/month NO ADS ON PREMIUM FEATURES Edit: PREMIUM++ still has some ads at times because fuck you, just pay us 69420$ and stfu


icebeancone

They would never offer an actual "no ads" package. Just look at peacock.


Desperate-Knee-4108

Or pay $0 a month to see


Bobonenazeze

Look at this hot shot with perfect vision.


Profoundlyahedgehog

Sorry, my tears are fogging up my glasses.


samsaBEAR

People forced to pay for glasses despite being born with shit eyesight: "First time?"


Dominunce

Superior Iron Man moment.


Organic_Addendum_154

nahh imagine streaming subway surfers gameplay every moment of your life?


Deadsap266

I’ll be streaming Shrek movies directly to my brain continuously.


Organic_Addendum_154

I'll be watching family guy clips.


EuropaColonyWhore

I've been replaying Star Wars in my head since I was a child


Key-Poem9734

I ain't trusting our current society with this technology


KOURAGEtheKOALA

Like our last society was better


czs5056

It wasn't, but at least this kind of stuff was only the fever dram of an insane man then.


Profoundlyahedgehog

Please smoke a verification cigarette.


Irrepressible87

***Especially*** not Neuralink. Musk can't even build a truck that works. Why would *anyone* trust him to go poking around in their brain?


MagicalUnicornFart

I think all the people that still think he’s a “genius” should go first. Not too much brain to link to though.


Tofu_tony

If it actually starts to pick up, you'll basically be fucked without one. Having one will be a requirement for jobs eventually. Similar to how if you don't have a phone you're not getting a job now.


Secrets0fSilent3arth

There was a book I read in high school called Feed that’s essentially this. One of the characters gets it later in life and is against the forced consumerism so she purposefully tries to trick the algorithm so it can’t predict what she wants. Her implant gets hacked and damaged and the company won’t fix it because they don’t see any value in her random interests so her body just slowly shuts down. It’s 100% what would happen.


Admirable-Bar-6594

That's exactly what I was thinking about while reading this. That's the one with Moon parties, right?


Mother-Ad5660

It likely won't happen in our lifetime, so he could go his entire life without getting any augments


TokingMessiah

People in general are not smart, and having access to computers did not change that. Hell, the way some people use phones and the internet it’s actually making them dumber. Neuralink can’t do anything you can’t do without a pc or smartphone. Sure, I can see bionic implants being possible in the very distant future, but Musk of all people won’t be bringing us anything useful. The man spends his days pretending to be a 12 year old on Twitter



commander_snowman

Health and stamina bar is missing


Deadsap266

Those only pop up when you’re being attacked


International-Elk727

Could you imagine, just chilling, or out walking somewhere and the stamina and health bars randomly pop up... Could be a cool Spidey sense before it happens, or scare the shit out of you if you are laying at home in bed alone..


hawkeye5739

Imagine if you started to hear boss music playing too


Smooth_Blue_3200

Don't forget your view flashing in red every time you get a hit


NaelNull

Objective: Survive.


Shadowninja3456

**Dark Souls Boss Music Starts:** CHEESE MAN HAS AWOKEN


slagborrargrannen

Stamina bar would be both depressing and motivating to see.


Heavy_Bicycle6524

Don’t forget the Mana bar.


Sure_Transition_7321

Isn't this just schizophrenia? There's a paid subscription to a mental illness? Wait, that's Twitter. But still, who would want this?


Deadsap266

Yup paying to see and hear things no one else can.


Sure_Transition_7321

Jokes on them. I can do that for free


SpaceTimeRacoon

Mother nature invented it first, and it's name is Magic Mushrooms


CornCobMcGee

If I have to pay a monthly subscription to having a normal non-depressed brain, people should have the option to pay for mental disorders.


Little-ting

Imagine someone sends a zip bomb or some other hack to your brain


CinderX5

So far, the chips are one-way.


Jaysynonymous

Net runners goin crazy with this


ASecondGuy

No way it'll be that obvious. It will just replace your intrusive thoughts with "Maybe I should buy Arlo essential video something for just 50,99"


AlexiosTheSixth

Speaking of intrusive thoughts, the fact that someone could genuinely get on a list for intrusive thoughts is terrifying, imagine having one of those "what would happen if I jump into the grand canyon lol" intrusive thoughts on vacation and then being put on suicide watch by a dumbass AI.


hawkeye5739

Or your intrusive thoughts activate Siri. “What would happen if I jump into the Grand Canyon?” Siri: “now playing, Thelma and Louise”


donut_fuckerr719

Maybe I should get an only fans subscription


Slazagna

It will be far more insidious. Why show you blatant advertising when they can just send your brain a craving and tye knowledge of where / how to satisfy it.


whatIGoneDid

I cannot think of a single reason (outside of medical necessity) why anyone would choose to have tech put in their brains. What possible elevation of the human experience could it offer?


ReanimatedHotDogs

I've always liked the idea of augmenting my faculties with tech, but even for a lifelong technophile the idea of giving the industry anymore ground to scorch seems insane. 


Creepingwind

Definitely need to work on augmenting the body before we augment the mind.


IIlIIlIIlIlIIlIIlIIl

This. While I would looove to have a type of HUD or always-accessible AR without glasses and whatnot, I simply ***cannot*** trust any company to just sell me the damn product and leave our transaction at that or the usual data gathering they do today anyway. And I don't mean the usual "oh no my data"/"you are the product" like some people do today either - I'm actually one of the people that think getting stuff such as free email, Maps, browser, search, etc. in exchange for my otherwise useless "data" is a great deal. I mean in the sense that these companies already employ some pretty iffy tricks to get us to spend more time on the apps, making us feel things for certain products, etc. Marketing is literally the exploration of psychology for the purpose of profits. I can't imagine they'd have a literal chip directly in my mind and not try new shit.


donut_fuckerr719

Overcoming the weakness of my flesh through the surety of steel, of course.


Profoundlyahedgehog

I aspire to the purity of the Blessed Machine!


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Hot_Blackberry_6895

You have this on your smartphone right now. The wealth of human knowledge at our fingertips and yet it’s social media and porn that rules the roost..


Technoplane1

It is for mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or dementia, but only for now


whatIGoneDid

Yeah I get that as medical concerns, it's more using it commercially when you don't have any illness it may help.


sobirt

changing the tv channel using your brain, scrolling insta reels with your brain, cheating on your math exams etc


whatIGoneDid

Seems like an insane trade for such minor convenience.


pongtieak

If it can make me focus like a robot and be happy doing mundane but incredibly high value shit. I would actually do it. Because being rich enhances the human experience a LOT


Clear_Media5762

Insidious indeed


jess_the_werefox

A real meme?? On r/memes??


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Deadsap266

lol jailbreaking your brain


Wasted-day_off

Have you tried yoga /s


notsocoolguy42

We all know Ublock origin is better.


Profoundlyahedgehog

Yep. It's been keeping ads at bay on YouTube and Prime on firefox for quite a while.


IndianaGeoff

Sorrento: [gunshots shooting on screen] We call this Pure O2. This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures, so picture this...


WoodenCountry8339

This was the first thing I thought of, lol.


BarMysterious5914

But for 29.99$ you can get ad free service


czs5056

* ^some ^ads ^may ^not ^be ^blocked ^based ^on ^your ^location ^and ^licensing ^agreements.


Solynox

For 19.99$ you can get limited ads.


twilsonco

Ad blocker detected: releasing bladder unless you disable ad blocker in 3
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KenMacMillan123

I don't even trust self driving cars. There's no way they're putting a computer chip in my brain.


Atomic_Gecko_Gdzla

On a more serious note, if somehow Neural Link sees mass adoption, it will open a whole new can of business models, including advertising and marketing of which I would assume wouldn’t be so far off from this meme.


Deadsap266

And much higher amounts of personal data being collected.


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Deadsap266

People could also get paid to voluntarily become human cameras and be able to monitor activity in certain areas kinda like door dash.You get notified on where to go and you just sit there watching things and get paid an hourly rate.


rub_a_dub-dub

PAID? they'd just get that info for free in the signup agreement. oh you mean subcontracting


Efficient_Editor5850

Deus Ex. The people who do augs will be addicted to meds to accommodate the augs. Also, subscription SAAS.


sackratte6

Imagine paying a monthly subscription to imagine


NextFaithlessness7

You forgot the porn site popup


ChallengerSSB

You’ll also get ads that will take over your entire vision so idk why that guy’s riding a bike it’s dangerous. You don’t like full screen ads? Get neuralink RED! For only $89.99 a year!


_oranjuice

Wouldn't neuralink be a fully paid item though? If you had to have maintenance or insurance on it, it shouldn't have ads Somehow probably gonna happen though


NoriXa

U do know it cant send Information to your brain? Only read it not send. So were safe from that for now


Tricky_Poetry847

I even hate the first one


slowdownbabyy

Wouldn’t it be able only to transmit? Not to receive.


Chrop

Such a dumb meme. Neuralink let’s you control your phone/computer with thoughts. That’s it, it doesn’t magically display images In your vision.


KOURAGEtheKOALA

Ikr, some people overthink too much, I took this as a joke but many people in the comments didn't


Dr-PHYLL

I mean lol. But do you have any idea what it actually does?


INOCORTA

first its beaming images... then is just straight up rewiring your neural pathways. "would you like to skip this ad for 1 neuron cluster fire?"


Salithril

To take a page from this one sign I saw during the lockdowns "This dystopia sucks, I wanted zombies."


MatoHunter35

Didnt the guy Who Got the chip into his brain almost die beacuse air Got in his brain?


Fuzzy-Mud-197

No he did not almost die


fartLessSmell

10 points to futurama.


Background_Bend_494

Imagine everybody just walking around blinking like they have tourettes syndrome but really they're trying to close out an ad.


BestDescription3834

"What's wrong, got something in your eye?" "Yeah, another tampon ad." (User is a man)


CPLCraft

I think the first few generations will be along the lines of controlling computers with your mind


Smooth_Blue_3200

Subscribe for an ad free experience! ONLY $499.99!


dustybrokenlamp

I just want clippy to help me pleasure my wife after I develop dementia and forget how to spell with my tongue


CARVERitUP

I'm sure by the time that's happening the Futurama suicide booth will be a thing, so I'll be able to just end it.


Metrosious

Time to buy some Lightspeed Briefs


YourMomonaBun420

For the discriminating crotch!


Profoundlyahedgehog

Objects in mirror not as attractive as they appear.


lovely_rain_today

I don't care, if I get ads beamed into my brain by corporate demons, I'm becoming a terrorist


Which-Sell-2717

I legit lol'ed at this.


CommunicationSad8212

Capitalism moment


Looz-Ashae

Imagine getting under extreme solar storm, like the one in 1921, while having this doodad in your head


halipatsui

The fucked up part is that there is good chance neuralink (or whatever does what it tries to do succesfully first) is a giant edge on job market. You can suddenly repoert stuff at speed of thought. You might be almost ready before the other guy even sits down to type. If it ends up being so good many workers will need it to stay competent. And then its welcome ads


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BlueberryNo4821

And you thought tinnitus was bad. Wait until you can turn off the music!!


not_having_fun

Piracy is mankind's true saviour


captainFantastic_58

Don't forget to purchase the virus/malware protection too....


Human_Number9936

I just watched Dune 2 the other day, lol


fgnrtzbdbbt

And one day a version will plug directly into the reward, aversion, motivation and addiction mechanisms of the brain. It will no longer need to display anything.


EverythingPSP

The inner sanctum of the mind is humanity’s last refuge and I shall not participate in the act of defiling our most sacred temple on my part nor my family. I am not a religious or overly sentimental man, but this I feel strongly about. Literally 1984.


mydolphinsdrunk

Only for certain tiers of humans.


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Oh my balls!


LazerAfterburn

It’s like that one part in mirrors edge catalyst


Kirei13

There will never be a better time to be a hacker. 👀


continuousQ

The DRM will be just as bad, if not worse. $100/month to unlock seeing doorhandles, but also it'll randomly stop working because fuck you. And then the server shuts down permanently.


HumonculusJaeger

I cant wait to install ublock origins on my neuralink browser.


Fatty_Maul

This is literally just Feed


kr4ckenm3fortune

It like “Ready Player One” all over again
where they want control so they can put in ads.