According to today's Chicago Tribune, an atomic physicist, playing around one day with a water-filled lens, may have discovered an inexpensive way to correct vision. Product: self-adjusting eyeglasses. Market: "...close to 3 billion people."
How many more of these "holy cow" moments will it take for the health care industry to wake up and acknowledge a fundamentally changed world? The dinosaurs must've acted similarly on the day AFTER the comet hit - with a dim-witted realization that something radical has happened but an utter lack of curiosity about the long-term picture or their place in it.
"Eyeglasses using Silver's simple, self-adjusting technology are now poised to revolutionize the way the world's poor—and quite possibly the rest of us—see, potentially coming to the aid of billions who struggle to squint enough to farm, study, drive or hold down any job."Cost? Maybe as low as $2 a pair once manufacturing volume picks up. And thus is another sector of a bloated, complacent industry threatened by someone thinking a bit differently, ignoring the old guard's objections and challenging the status quo.
How many more of these "holy cow" moments will it take for the health care industry to wake up and acknowledge a fundamentally changed world? The dinosaurs must've acted similarly on the day AFTER the comet hit - with a dim-witted realization that something radical has happened but an utter lack of curiosity about the long-term picture or their place in it.
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