Now I know that being able to interface with digital data directly would be a cool concept but I find it hard to believe that most people (in Japan as presented in the show) would choose to get cyberized if you are able to have your perception or even your consciousness directly manipulated.
shareWhy would anyone hand over details about their social life to a company which may not even be based in your country? And yet, Facebook is undeniably successful. Those who do not wish to use Facebook may find that their social life struggles because they are out of the loop.
You are already at a disadvantage if you do not shop online. As more people move online, margins for bricks and mortar shops will grow ever tighter and more of them will go to the wall, sadly. The net effect (apologies for the pun) is that it will become increasingly difficult to make purchases outside of cyberspace. This in turn marginalises people who are skeptical about online security (and not entirely without good reason, given the growing prevalence of identity theft), who do not wish to expose their finances to undue risk. There is a critical mass whcih will slowly force them to put their finances online, whether they wish to or not.
The same effect could therefore apply to cyberisation. As the procedure becomes more commonplace, the cyberised will become adavantaged. At an airport, for instance, a cyber implant could replace a passport, whereas those who remain doggedly luddite must queue to have their passports checked. In the office, corporations might only start to employ employees with a cyber-implant, as it might prove more cost-effective to download training straight into your employee's brain rather than to spend thousnads of expensive educational courses.
By incentivising society, take-up of new technology is ultimately assured. To forgo cyberisation would ultimately put the individual at a disadvantage, one which, at first, may be minor, but would only grow in the intervening years, until the individual is ultimately forced to adopt the new technology, regardless of their personal predilictions.