He’s like a character in a Philip K. Dick short story: The Neo-Snake Oil Salesman Selling Electric Cars and Trips to Mars.

or the batteries that burst into flames

that would be an improvement. they actually burst into molten lithium, like a volcano
https://hexbear.net/post/163514

what really pisses me off is BCIs do have real potential to help with those conditions + with prosthetics but instead thousand of hours of work is going to be poured into the deranged, impossible notion of extracting + implanting memories because that’s got better appeal to individuals incapable of seeing anything as useful if they cannot use it themselves

Altered Carbon type shit

I only watched the show but it’s a story where a bunch of revolutionaries got together to overthrow the wealthy so that they wouldn’t use the magic alien body swapping technology to oppress everyone. The revolutionaries lose and for hundreds of years the wealthy become immortal gods that use the technology to basically trick poor people into thinking they can’t die and then murdering them during graphic violent sexual acts, getting off on that they tricked them into permanent death. It’s even implied it’s done to children.

So someone looks at this show/book and then goes “man wouldn’t it be cool if we lived a society that had cortical stacks?”