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| Vidi44 |
  Posted 18th Aug 2005 7:54pm |
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Pred, the problems he has are not part of the retinal area. His optic nerves and all that don't function properly.
The artificial eye only will fix problems with the retina. It has a microchip and mini-cameras to interpret light and convert it to electrical signals to pass through the optic nerve. As (provided I understand it right) his optic nerves (and possibly audiotory nerves) are damaged, this won't do him any good. If they were going to fix it, they'd have to re-wire his brain and find microscopic wires to use.
Technically (thinking outside the box), if they researched into the retina thing and used fixed-focus, point-directional low-yield wi-fi to beam the images directly to the other side of his brain, then use superconductive wires to replace the nerves in his brain, there is a slight (roughly >1% chance at current research levels) that he'd be able to see in black-and-white. |
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| Bjossi |
Posted 18th Aug 2005 8:18pm |
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But wouldn´t it be possible to use a small chip with a computer inside that does the job for the bottom of the eyes?
(the disease/failure I have is killing those things that are on the bottom of the holes that house the eyeballs, I´m not sure what they´re called)
But if they go for good, my vision will aswell. A very advanced chip that would do the job for the things that are getting killed, wouldn´t it bring my vision back?
I don´t know much about this, so I´m most likely terribly wrong.  |
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| Vidi44 |
Posted 19th Aug 2005 12:38am |
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Well, at www.spymac.com, there's often some thread listed about theoretical research into all sorts of things. The problem is that this is all theoretical, and likely won't be accomplished for decades.
Anyway, what I was referring to was a technology that would bypass your eyes completely. It would only use your eyes to house two cameras. After that, the wi-fi would bypass your optical nerves and there'd have to be some sort of implant to directly tap into your brain. However, as I've said, this is highly theoretical, and there's an extreme risk of infection, and equally high chance that it'll damage entire regions of your brain, possibly killing you.
Sorry if it saddens you. Most people don't like to be filled with false hope. However, there is the hope that your descendants wouldn't have to live with such a terrible disorder. |
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| Predalienator |
Posted 19th Aug 2005 3:09am |
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| Quoting Bjossi | But wouldn´t it be possible to use a small chip with a computer inside that does the job for the bottom of the eyes?
(the disease/failure I have is killing those things that are on the bottom of the holes that house the eyeballs, I´m not sure what they´re called)
But if they go for good, my vision will aswell. A very advanced chip that would do the job for the things that are getting killed, wouldn´t it bring my vision back?
I don´t know much about this, so I´m most likely terribly wrong. |
Well just hope for what the future has for us maybe there will be a chip that not only gives your eyesight back but enhaces your vision or study really hard and work on that part of branch for optical research and make the chip yourself. |
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| Bjossi |
Posted 19th Aug 2005 1:29pm |
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If human can succeed in that after some decades, the next thing to accomplish is to use a computer to "teach" the brain what it is sending to it.
So you´d be in school for 10 seconds instead of 10 years for example.
I love talking about future technology. 
Mmmmmmm...starships. |
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| Vidi44 |
Posted 19th Aug 2005 6:44pm |
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How do you think they learn on Star Trek? If you notice all that the engineer's have to know, and most of them are in their 20s or 30s. There'd be no way they could learn all that, even given 100 years.
That brings up the question of why, in TNG, Ensign Crusher goes to school, but he's the only one ever mentioned. None of the others go to school, so why does he? If they have the ability to implant information directly into your brain, why does he work so hard? |
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| Predalienator |
Posted 20th Aug 2005 2:56am |
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maybe he wants more information from he was a kid he wants to be an omelete head. |
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| Bjossi |
Posted 20th Aug 2005 2:58pm |
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| Quoting Vidi44 | How do you think they learn on Star Trek? If you notice all that the engineer's have to know, and most of them are in their 20s or 30s. There'd be no way they could learn all that, even given 100 years.
That brings up the question of why, in TNG, Ensign Crusher goes to school, but he's the only one ever mentioned. None of the others go to school, so why does he? If they have the ability to implant information directly into your brain, why does he work so hard? |
Actually, there is a way, you have to be "a good learner". It´s possible. 
But in 20 - 30 years, that´s a good question. I saw in an episode of ST Enterprise, that the booklet for the warp engines is thicker than the the phone book for 300,000 people... |
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| Vidi44 |
Posted 22nd Aug 2005 8:33pm |
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| Quoting Predalienator | | maybe he wants more information from he was a kid he wants to be an omelete head. |
Still, if the warp manual and all that are so thick, no one would be able to learn it all. I think you mistyped there. The expression is usually "egg-head". However, he would know that it would be almost physically impossible for him to learn it. Even if he did learn it all, he'd be in his late 90s before he'd be finished. According to ST life expectancies, he might still have another 50 years to go, however he'd be so old he'd be senile and possibly crippled. A senile crippled warp engineer is useless, because he couldn't get around fast enough and he'd forget what he was doing anyway. |
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