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What a brilliant gift - aiming to give sight to the blind. It would be wonderful if it could stay out of commercial hands and be distributed as far as possible.
by apapli 13y ago
What a brilliant gift - aiming to give sight to the blind. It would be wonderful if it could stay out of commercial hands and be distributed as far as possible.
- mhb 13y agoLike cell phones.
- femto 13y agoThat wasn't the universal response to cochlear implants. Some viewed their deafness as part of their identity, and not a disease to be cured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#Controversy_in_the_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#Controversy_i...
- leknarf 13y agoThe best way to distribute this device as far as possible would be to get it in skilled commercial hands. The creators should profit from giving sight to the blind. This sort of technology is a perfect example of wealth creation: the purchaser gains the ability to see and the creator gets money. Everyone wins. I hope the creators become very, very rich. I hope they become so rich that someone else decides to compete by creating BionicEye 2.0.