All the more reason for them to start finding alternatives ASAP, at least as a backup. Those with knowledge and skill should help them.

This will not augment memory the way glasses do for sight, this will replace memory the way a wheelchair replaces legs.

So do you think disabled people deserve to participate in society or not?

Yes but able bodied people shouldnt decide to use a wheelchair until their legs attrophy and become useless.

I understand the rationale, but don’t you see how this idea contradicts autonomy of decisions for able-minded people? Such good intentions tend to be a pavement on roads to bad places.

I’d rather suggest to inform about all the potential benefits and drawbacks, but leave decisions with the individual.

Especially given that it’s not something irreversibly permanent.

I'd agree but we're closer to getting forced into the chair than making a decision that's right for us

Thinking about the power and reach of political ads served by social media companies over the past 10 years, this is gonna be a whole nother bucket of worms.

That's interesting and plausible.

It also contributes to obsolescing older hardware.

Also likely, some version of "get dat money"

When I do dishes by hand I think all kinds of interesting thoughts.

Anyway, we've had machines that do our dishes and laundry for a long while now.

We have machines that only do some parts of these tasks.

yet some people still do them by hand…

In that case, "blind" would be more accurate.

If you sell it directly to another human, or even use something like ebay, you'll get more and they'll pay less.

Thanks, I’ll look into doing that :)

> without the pain of extended hours of pressing hard with a pen or pencil.

Excuse me, do you have a minute to talk about fountain pens?

I recommend a Lamy Safari or Pilot Kakuno to start. If the nib is good, no pressure at all is required to write. You have to retrain to relax your hand and arm if you're used to ballpoints and graphite. High quality paper is not required but it can make a big difference too.

As far as digital, .txt will always have a special place in my hard drive. As long as a tool has a way to export into plaintext, I am not opposed to using it.

I'm definitely curious about fountain pens. I'm one of the few people I know that still writes in cursive.

And yeah, I still use .txt occasionally! Though mostly these days it's .md.

Wouldn't the whole system be the product then? There's tradeoffs, but that's just integration.