[nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blind people to detect objects'

[David Andrews]

I agree with John and Mike.  All things being equal, I think most of 
us would see if we could.

Dave

At 02:41 PM 11/4/2010, you wrote:
>Well, I seldom agree with John about anything but....
>I'd take the chip just because it would be an interesting and probably
>exciting thing to try.
>My life is quite full and I'm comfortable with my blindness but that doesn't
>mean I would turn down sight.
>In any case, the sight provided in this article is pretty minimal and
>probably not usable by people who have never seen.
>In most cases the reason I would turn down opportunities to see are that
>they would be a major disruption of my life, probably involving numerous
>operations or major amounts of time off work.  In other words, although I
>would find sight an interesting and new option in my life, I wouldn't take
>risks of what I currently have to get it.  And, I always envisioned any such
>treatment as having percentages of success.  They'd say, "This process has a
>20 percent chance of working and if it doesn't work you could be in major
>pain for the rest of your life."  You get the picture.  I'd love to see so
>long as I didn't have to risk anything serious for it.
>Now, offer me new eyes with no risk to the rest of my life and the
>reasonable cewrtainty that I'd end up with good vision, I'd take that.

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