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Just wait until you're older.. my dream is for presbyopia to be fixed. Presbyopia is essentially when your eyes can no longer auto-focus, it's incredibly annoying. I think some Israeli company was supposedly working on auto-focus glasses for this... good idea, since the market is basically everyone. But it looks like they stopped.

https://eye-see-mag.com/en/high-tech/autofocus-lenses-for-pr...

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I've been following the development of eye drops which promise to reach the lens and make it flexible again:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04806503

That would be really something.

Wow it really would be!

Should we invest in the company that makes them. What an amazing development

Novartis acquihired them very early on and now is performing clinical trials.

Results from the most recent completed study are encouraging:

https://www.healio.com/news/optometry/20201012/further-study...

Silly Question: It it a good experiment to put the medicine in one eye and the placebo in the other eye? What could be other consequences of such a thing?

Vision therapy for both presbyopia and myopia relies partly on neuroplasticity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194580

There is a sizable incumbent revenue stream from expensive progressive lenses for those with presbyopia, which may or may not influence investment in alternative solutions.

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