
That may well still happen but today I'm reading that Second Sight's bionic eye "Argus-II" has been FDA approved, which is amazing. And the patients seem to like it and value whatever level of prosthetic vision it provides, even if its minimal. Good for them! I hope this makes a big splash and a lot of money.
The really interesting question is how willing people will be to undergo the surgery in exchange for a fairly primitive visual system. My experience with blind patients during my postdoc is that they live very full complete lives and, while I'm sure they'd love to have their sense of vision back, they didn't think of themselves as missing out on part of life. Its a big grey area, but one that I'm looking forwards to seeing explored.
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