Most of my friends, are geeks too. So far, none of them has gone for this, though a few do qualify. Their reasoning is simple: The long term effects of this surgery are not yet documented.

Personally, I think they are just waiting for cybernetic implants that will give them superhuman vision, but again, we're geeks, that's what we'd want.

Kidding aside, this procedure can have nasty long term consequences, and I wouldn't want to risk it myself. Since I'll be wearing glasses in a few short years anyway, I'd rather wait and see what tech will come. maybe MEMS will be to the point that I can have a killer pair of glasses that do all kinds of neat things. Time will tell.