An interesting topic, wrxsti.

I have a tiny radio that I believed was the world’s smallest radio, until I read about that carbon nanotube thingy in your post.

I guess it would have heaps of application.

As to your question about a memory or other type of artificial or bio implant, I reckon I’d have to give a reserved “yes”.

I was born with high myopia and other eye conditions, and I have been legally blind my whole life. I’m not entirely sure what I would do if I was given the chance to get bionic eyes or an eye transplant that would make me able to see normally at this stage of my life.

I guess I don’t even like to think about it, as I don’t want to have false hope. And if it did happen, I would perhaps feel regret it came too late to fulfil the dreams I could not realise due to being born almost blind. So, in short, I think improving an impaired faculty will not necessarily improve someone’s life.

I think, as you suggest, that it would depend on each person’s situation. I would most certainly support any research that can lead to these kinds of developments.

I could not locate the story, but, along the same line as the miniature radio, I heard that a blind professor had developed a sensor that can be “sewn” into clothes, which I reckon would be a pretty neat idea.

Tethys

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