Vision Quest
I'm sitting across from a blind man -- call him patient Alpha -- at a long table in a windowless conference room in New York. On one end of the table there's an old television and a VCR. On the other end are a couple of laptops. They're connected by wires to a pair of homemade signal processors housed in unadorned gunmetal-gray boxes, each no bigger than a loaf of bread. In the corner stands a plastic ficus tree, and beyond that, against the far wall, a crowded bookshelf. Otherwise, the walls are white and bare. When the world's first bionic eye is turned on, this is what Patient Alpha will see...more [WIRED]
Someday this will be common. Between blindness, deafness, and paralysis, all will be mitigated by microelectronics. The stuff of faith healers, we become the realm of science...mj
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