A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.
What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.
Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.
I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.