peach eating vagus nerve cultist of the house of tool ape
that shit would NOT work one tenth as reliably or well as it does in the movies. you would wake up one day to find that a firmware update has completely fucked your ability to walk straight and tech support CANNOT help you
ive read a lot of porn in this constellation of premise
almost made some joke about "the company that made your eyes has closed down, you can no longer see" but then remembered that has actually happened in real life already
within days of them getting a new "intelligent" glucose monitering implant, my friend was confident it was better than their old self tracker app thing. but then it turned itself off, for three hours to update, without any notice or warning. that's what adds the dystopia to the cyberpunk, and there it was, literally in real life.
i swear i’ve seen someone post a story of theirs with a premise like this directly onto cohost. i don’t remember what it was called though but someone might
