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Well, not necessarily - this treatment works by converting the near-IR light into green light which the eyes process normally. If this did work in people, I wo
by leggomylibro 8y ago
Well, not necessarily - this treatment works by converting the near-IR light into green light which the eyes process normally.
If this did work in people, I would let a few waves of early adopters go first. It's a big open question as to how confusing things might be if you were IR/green colorblind.
- bigiain 8y agoPart of me feels like "Gimme gimme gimme! I want it _now!!!" Another part of me is more thinking "I wonder what unexpected side effects we'll see when we have data from clinically controlled trials of large numbers of people using this technology over timespans of 40-50 years?"
- leggomylibro 8y agoLet me put it this way. I was an early adopter of a simple sort of body modification - I had a small neodymium disc magnet sheathed in some inert material implanted in a finger. It was cool and all, but I eventually got it removed because it was sensitive and if the inert sheath ever broke, it'd be bad news. Bodies don't like rare earth metals. When I got it removed, the person who did it turned out to know the one who put it in (small world), and they told me that the new ones were tiny slivers which were almost impossible to feel, much less remove. And that wasn't exactly comforting. Mine practically popped out, but a tiny sliver? Nowadays, I think two or three times about those sorts of 'life hacks'.