<story><title>Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>advael</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said before that I think it should be illegal to sunset a device without open-sourcing the technology needed to support it. Medical implants of any kind are an especially compelling case for this&lt;p&gt;Probably medical devices should also have very strict requirements regarding auto-updates, including provisions that prevent them from being remotely disabled&lt;p&gt;This seems like a problem we can&amp;#x27;t solve without legislation. We need either these sorts of legal requirements for implantable devices, or to blanket ban private firms from working in this space. I think the former would be preferable</text></comment>
<story><title>Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomatotomato37</author><text>How on earth do you mismanage a company so badly that you can literally give sight to the blind and still go bankrupt? Even at a $500k treatment there should be more than enough aging millionaires willing to buy their way out of their own body&amp;#x27;s infallibilities</text></comment>