by metatron 18 Replies latest jw friends
I try to keep up with all the exploding developments in science
but this one shocked me.
The Sept. 2002 issue of Wired magazine is claiming that a bionic
eye has been created that is interfaced directly into the visual
cortex of the brain. 'Patient Alpha' was reported to be able
to drive a car around a parking lot using his new vision.
I found this claim so remarkable I looked for evidence that it
was a hoax or a joke.
Amazing! What next?
metatron
Science is making incredible leaps and bounds. I was amazed when I saw the story on the news.
Wow what next indeed?
Amazing stuff. It makes me feel good that in years to come people will not suffer with such ailments. There will be answers. Fair enough there will always be things we cannot cure, but this sort of thing is great.
Sirona
Hey you lurking Watchtower bastards!
Remember Genesis and the Tower of Babel? "and there will be nothing
that is unobtainable for them". Get used to it, jerks, IT'S HAPPENING
and IT WILL MAKE THE WATCHTOWER MEANINGLESS.
metatron
The Watchtower is already meaningless.
francois
woooo! this is amazing! :) promising news for folks that suffer blindness/degenerative eye diseases! maybe i won't go blind later in life. weeeeee :)
We can rebuild him. Stronger, faster, better than before.
All I want to see in my lifetime is an interface like the Matrix where you can download information directly into your brain. Please, please, please.
Greetings metatron. This is an awesome development for the blind. it really isn't suprising though. We already make circuitry and optics that is far more advanced that the human eye. After all its just light that gets picked up by the eye and turned into electricity. I can imagine what it would be like to see your family for the first time, even if they were just blobs of color. *L* Thanks for posting another interesting topic metatron.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
even if they were just blobs of color
The important thing to remember, of course (and it might be lost to those not tech-savvy) is that 'blobs of color' is all ANYONE can see.
It's just a matter of resolution - that is, how MANY 'blobs of color' you can get in your field of vision. The more points of color, the smaller each can become, until you can no longer see individual 'blobs' or pixels or whatever and the image appears smooth.
Wow. Just read the entire article. Like you meta, at one point, I questioned so much that I decided, no, this is fiction (the description of the patients seizure).
The competition to be first, and then be better, makes this all the more exciting.
I don't know if I should share this with my much older brother, who has been going blind since about age 18, and has been legally blind for 25 years or so. I fear this technology is just slightly to late to save him, and he is so angry at the cards he was dealt. He hopes in Jehovah, although the cognitive dissonance has to be a bitch.
When eyes of blind ones see again...
