Sounds like a wonderful procedure. I hope it’s not patented or copyrighted.
I just found two more links that are even better...
They used the technology that was used to fix the Hubble Space telescope..
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What do you think the world would look like if no one could benefit economically from having invented valuable technology?
You are probably surrounded by inventions whose patents ran out long ago and which continue to benefit mankind long after the inventors have died.
Do you drive a car? Own a computer? Take a generic medication? Without the economic incentives, would any of these things exist? Thomas Edison found a thousand ways NOT to make an effective light bulb. Who would have gone to the trouble and expense without some period of exclusive rights to such an invention?
I was fascinated several years ago when I ran across an early microprocessor chip that was being manufactured in the Soviet Union. (Remember them?) It was a copy of an early Intel 8080 chip. Would you rather live in the former USSR or here in the U.S.? I know what I would choose and why.
I’m sure it is, but the article says it’s rolling it out across England and they have socialized medicine so I’m thinking it can’t be that expensive. Maybe even about the same price as cateract surgery? Let’s hope!