Easy: you keep firearms illegal (way ahead of ya over this side of the world!) and similar prohibitions on whatever murder enhancing technologies you have in mind for the suits. If they're mechas: require a permit!Weezer wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 05:49Im not so sure the general public will submit themselves to something like that.headphone_jack wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 02:50BCI devices will, whether we like it or not, probably become as standard as smartphones are today within the next decade or two. Tom Scott had an excellent talk about it, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/_kBlH-DQsEg
Infact if you want to get really out there, i almost wonder if something like that would be outlawed because it would cause a threat to power. If people can interface their brains with equipment, whats stopping them from becoming a bunch of vigilante super soldiers, controlling firearms with hyper precision and bionic suits with their minds?
It's the usual thing: restrict / outright ban the deadly bits. You can't ban poor judgement, but you can make it less destructive by taking sharp things away. Here in Scotland, we even banned *air* guns (let alone the real ones) because people are that reckless, and we're so much more comfortable with big government than over in America.
But people will interface with computers. And advertisers will pay $BANK to rent real estate inside their minds. If you described smartphones and social media to people just two, three decades ago, they'd find the idea of mass / ubiquitous adoption of these deeply privacy invasive concepts to be utterly absurd. Dystopian indeed. They just would not believe it would ever fly. But people are absurd. We'll totally do it. First a few, then almost all of us, shockingly fast, to hell the consequences.