Another example: Tour de France is still popular and tiring etc...although we have motorbikes.
Sports have to follow rules and if technology makes those rules old-fashioned most people will just enjoy the sport with the old-fashioned rules anyway
This.
Computers would require interfacing (using a keyboard/mouse, touching a touch screen, mentally triggering an implant).
As long as it is detectable, it would be logical to ban any form of interfacing with mental implants on the stage. Any mental implant activity detected once the cube is revealed is instant dq.
External tools that unfairly assist the solve are banned, so if they went all that way in banning stickerless cubes in comp, using mental implants are even worse, like using skates in a marathon lol, and would certainly be banned. Since this is no different than lugging your laptop on stage during the solve and firing up cube explorer, except that nobody can see your laptop lol.
The issue now would be detectability.
(click spoiler for a possible future scenario)
Usually, in such technologies, detectability is hard to conceal, due to the nature of control (interfacing via some form of communication, which is usually the vector of attack in activities such as wiretapping/eavesdropping/keylogging/cardskimming etc). There would probably be technology developed to hide this (encryption, detection concealment devices, etc), but then these themselves are probably also detectable in their own right. I can forsee many security layers piling up from this, and other security issues, needing security experts that are up-to-date in the latest anonimity/mental encryption trends/technologies. They could probably form an authoritative body, like a "World Mental Sports Authenticity Enforcement Commitee", and this WMSAEC can conduct inspections on mental games like chess, cubing, or even things like exams (unless these are considered obsolete, unless you are testing practical application of knowledge), enforcing the authenticity of the mental feat by discounting any possible mental implant usage. Sorta like testing athletes for steroids.
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Let's say society evolves such that memorization is obsolete, and everyone relies on their implants for remembering things, since it is 100% reliable memory storage with instant recall. Some people will argue that they have the cube algs stored in implant, and need to activate it to recall them.
Sorry, but you'll have to do it the old fashioned way, and memorize the alg. It's like physical training for sports. It's not really necessary to be physically strong and fast with all the technologies we have, but that's how you compete in that sport, physically without using any tech. So mental sports should also have the same treatment.
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Let's say society evolves such that memorization is obsolete, and everyone relies on their implants for remembering things, since it is 100% reliable memory storage with instant recall. Some people will argue that they have the cube algs stored in implant, and need to activate it to recall them.
Sorry, but you'll have to do it the old fashioned way, and memorize the alg. It's like physical training for sports. It's not really necessary to be physically strong and fast with all the technologies we have, but that's how you compete in that sport, physically without using any tech. So mental sports should also have the same treatment.
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