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What is this from: beheading, head stolen in heist, and connected to new body?
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus contains an execution scene that follows pretty much as you describe.
It takes place pretty high up for all to see. The head is dropped into a chute that leads to an ...
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YA(?) story involving a society of brain-modded people and an escapee who returns
This sounds like Devil On My Back by Monica Hughes, from 1984.
The title is a reference to the knowledge packs that people in the city wear - the most revered members of society have the most packs ...
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Sci-fi book about a brain chip implanted in your head that would tell you anything your phone could and more
The Utopia Experiment by Robert Ludlum:
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own ...
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TV Series (I think) about wireless internet implants gone deadly
This could be the web series H+: The Digital Series from August 2012 to January 2013. There was only one series of 48 ~5 minute YouTube episodes with an announced, but unproduced, second season.
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Novel, or play, about a high school boy who gets a brain chip that gives him more personality
Might you be thinking of Be More Chill? The description on Goodreads says it's also a play:
Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl ...
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Science fiction novel (first of a series?) about brain implants and social change
In the course of writing up the question, I did a few more searches, and came up with Amped by Daniel H. Wilson.
In a near-future where the Neural-Autofocus and other neural implants made formerly ...
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