John Scalzi

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

American Author

Gordon Moore

American Businessman

Understand 'cataract' as a vision issue, not a sudden event like a heart attack.

Medical Condition

Though common in seniors, cataracts can occur at any age, even in babies.

Not Just Old Age

'Cataract' implies blurriness in vision, not complete blindness.

Clarity of Vision

Associates with the grandeur and strength of nature; it's more than a small stream.

Nature's Power

Often a significant feature in travel, attracting visitors for its beauty.

Tourist Attraction

'Cataract' focuses on the waterfall rather than the body of water it's in.

Different from River

 in millions of people every year and helps in preventing cataracts. And that example, I think, is a really nice one, because it helps remind us that in the early days, people often chose materials because they were bioinert. Their very purpose was to perform a mechanical function. You'd put them in the body

Molly Stevens: A new way...

 through cataract Canyon down to the place where the river meets the lake and then paddle across the reservoir and explore side canyons along the way to see what might be coming back i wanted to put together a trip that would allow me to to maybe experience a bit of this lost world

Rediscovering Glen...

 have pioneered high-volume, low-cost cataract surgery for as little as six dollars. Why then, with all these advances, are there still so many blind people in the world? The main issue is access to health care, with poor infrastructure and a shortage of doctors

A curable condition that...

 I knew how to treat her condition; it was pretty straightforward. But we had strict instructions that the funds we had were for people with cataracts. What was I supposed to do? Ignore her? My wife and I managed to raise the funds to cover her treatment,

A new way to fund health...

 sandy cruet travels the world setting up eye clinics in developing countries dubbed a miracle doctor by the media route trains local doctors in inexpensive and effective treatments for cataracts North Korea may be his biggest challenge yet

Inside North Korea PIPE...

 The whites that you see in the middle of his pupils are congenital cataracts, so opacities of the lens. In our eyes, the lens is clear, but in this child, the lens has become opaque, and therefore he can't see the world.

Pawan Sinha on how...

 whose cataracts would be helped, and I realized that I went from this kind of narcissistic self-focus to altruistic joy, to feeling good for the people that were being helped. I think that's a motivator.

Daniel Goleman: Why...

 feel how much I have grown up she couldn't see me but he could fill me my grandfather is still with me whenever a treat a blind patient in the cataract his face comes in my mind so maybe that

Bringing Life-Changing...

 very well there are thousands who are blind and they need help and you cannot call yourself a developed country if you have people getting blind from cataracts

Curing Blindness: How...

 to the downright bizarre some pointed out of control hormones or cataracts others blamed a world taken over by hungry caterpillars the answers eluded