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What's the Business Model For Commercializing Cyborgs?
An anonymous reader points out an article about Backyard Brains, a small company notable for turning cockroaches into cyborgs. The article explores how such an odd use of science and technology can actually form the basis of a business. They primarily work with educational organizations to bring their brand of DIY neuroscience to students and other interested parties. School budgets are often small, so a key part of Backyard Brains's goal is to make things inexpensive. "We want to inspire a generation of citizen-scientists. If we can lower the barrier to entry so the only limit is creativity, that might help with finding treatments for neurological disorders." As they find success, they're developing more research kits, and finding more ways to make cyborg insects into a business.
Or a cyborg cockroach to go and eradicate the other cockroaches. RAID pesticide company might be interested.
What better way to kill cockroaches than having a terminator cockroach. And if you network then Worldwide, we could finally eradicate every living cockroach everywhere. And some fly, too! I really don't see any downside to it at all.
Send it back in time to kill the first cockroach.