{"id":11455,"date":"2013-02-15T20:39:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11455"},"modified":"2013-02-15T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:48:17","slug":"vision-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11455","title":{"rendered":"Vision for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/15\/health\/fda-approves-technology-to-give-limited-vision-to-blind-people.html target=1>An article on the front page of today&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> caught my eye.  It marks FDA approval, after ten years of research and development, of a working artificial retina.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the tech isn&#8217;t quite like an actual retina at this stage.  Resolution is extremely low, color is pretty much non-existent, and the externally worn component of the device is large and unsightly.  But for people who have had essentially no vision, it is transformative.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will probably be able to see where this is going:  Today the quality might be low, but eventually such a device will be as good as a natural retina, and then, at some point, it will be better.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, as the technology improves this kind of implant will no longer be seen as a prosthetic to correct a problem, but as something integral to our everyday experience of the world, like electric lights, or cars, or clothing.<\/p>\n<p>And then everything will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the front page of today&#8217;s New York Times caught my eye. It marks FDA approval, after ten years of research and development, of a working artificial retina. Of course the tech isn&#8217;t quite like an actual retina at this stage. Resolution is extremely low, color is pretty much non-existent, and the externally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vision for the future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11455"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11467,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}