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But those options were available to him without a risky brain implant. There's a large amount of alternative interface methods and tools available for these purposes, they just don't have Musk's marketing budget and they aren't run by someone that owns a newspaper, so they're not well known outside the disabled community.
We've had wearable (and thus removable and non invasive) neural interfaces for years now that have been able to do mouse control.
We've had robust eye tracker control since Steven fucking Hawking.
This is being framed as though this was the only way for this person to have these abilities and options available, and that is patently false.
Those alternatives are old tech that has way more limitations than a neural implant.
Just because there is old tech that SORT OF does this, doesn't mean it can't be improved. That's the same attitude behind "not needing more than 4mb of RAM" back in the day. You can't stop progress all because YOU are fine with the current state of the tech.
I'm well aware of the existence of alternatives. But you must agree that what is achievable with an implant far outstrips the current alternatives?