You don’t even need the movies to have some dystopian implant horror. Second sigh used to produce a sight restoring implant. After some financial trouble they stopped manufacturing and support for one of their products. Leaving recipients of the implant sightless in the case the hardware breaks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058

No way he didn’t know what het was doing. He hesitates before he does it the first time, then when he get’s a positive reaction he does it the second time. This was deliberate and from what I can see many people in the the US are underreacting to it big time.