<story><title>The human cost of neurotechnology failure</title><url>https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drodgers</author><text>I really like the proposal from John Scalzi&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;Lock In&amp;#x27; series where companies that produce neural implants have to establish a trust or insurance contract with enough assets to pay for the maintenance of any implants for the lifetime of the recipients, regardless of what happens to the company.&lt;p&gt;Governments could provide generous subsidies, tax breaks etc. to such funds to reduce the barrier for entry for companies.&lt;p&gt;Without some solution like this, it&amp;#x27;s hard to imagine any non-essential neural implants really taking off: who would ever buy a neural lace from a startup — or even an established company like Google who might just lose interest — if there was no guarentee of patches and maintenance?</text></comment>
<story><title>The human cost of neurotechnology failure</title><url>https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_fat_santa</author><text>There should be something similar to the FDIC for medical device manufacturers. If you&amp;#x27;re a customer of a bank and the bank goes under, the FDIC will step in to ensure continuity of operations and youre eventually taken up by another bank that buys the assets.&lt;p&gt;For a company that makes medical devices, part of the bankrupcy process should be a 3rd party company coming in and taking over support and maintenance of the devices. Although this would be very challenging, one of the things that makes it possible with banks is at a high level,the business is the same. With medical devices it would be much much more difficult to find a suitable company to come in and take over operations.&lt;p&gt;At the very least this story is why we need Right to Repair laws. If not having another company step in to takeover support, at least make the device such that it can be repaired by an independent party</text></comment>