2006-12-07 12:03:51 · 19 answers · asked by ffaddie 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Ever? Yes, absolutely. Nothing is ever impossible with time and patience. In the near future? no.
2006-12-07 12:06:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fat chance. Notice in industrialized countries, most people are near-signted, while in more primitive countries, they are far-sighted. In other words, the eye is an adaptive organ; even though I'm "near-sighted", my eyes are perfectly adjusted for what I do 99% of the time (sit in front of a computer). Even with things like lasik surgery, what happens 10 years after the procedure? Ever know anyone who's used the same prescription contacts 24x7 for 20 straight years? (or did their prescription "get worse"?)
Besides, "perfect vision" is really subjective. If a native Japanese looks at what an American considers an attractive picture of a person, the Japanese will think the person is drunk. If the American looks at a traditional picture from Japan of a person, the American will think the picture is washed out. There's a reason they sell different printers and ink cartridges in different parts of the world...
We can surely improve things. But I don't think "perfection" is really a reasonable thing to aim for.
2006-12-07 21:57:50 · answer #2 · answered by Nick C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think artificial eyes may be possible one day but i doubt it will give the vision obtained from a human eye. People dont realise just how magnificent the human body is, no computer has even got close to the quality of processing or storage of the human brain. I think it more likely that areas such as stem cell research will enable new eyes to be grown or replacement parts to be grown so we can repair damaged eyes rather than artificial eyes. But never say never, you only need to look at some of the artificial limbs being made that use nerve impulses to work, who 50 years ago would have thought it possible?
2006-12-10 21:03:53 · answer #3 · answered by xray_daddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The use of artificial eyes is well and truly happening allready, but as someone said earlier perfect vision will never be acheived. the image would be of very poor quality. This is available in developed countries to help people who have become blind due to optic nerve disease, but cannot provide any usefull outcome for a person who is born blind. Having said that though who knows what the future holds.!
2006-12-08 12:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by Electric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe, we've taken some steps, but remember, even if we could get dvd quality video from an artificial eye, that would still be many, many times worse than that of the human eye, the artificial eye may not focus fast enough, or be blurry, like what you see with today's video cameras.
2006-12-07 21:01:22 · answer #5 · answered by IHTFP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible, it is just that scientists have not found a way to connect or fix any nerves they have to cut to implant the new eye. The connection just doesn't work. Otherwise, people just revert to Lasik eye surgery.
2006-12-07 20:06:24 · answer #6 · answered by Isabela 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
with stem cell reasearch we can possibly regrow the optic nerve so that we can fix it to an artificial eye
2006-12-07 20:05:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would put the white cane manufactures out of a job and put the eye seeing dogs on unemployment
2006-12-08 03:57:39 · answer #8 · answered by John B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-12-07 20:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the advances people are making in nanotechnology, I believe they eventually will.
2006-12-07 20:08:56 · answer #10 · answered by Polo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋