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minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoI mean a can opener is very different, no? Or at least it is when I try to put myself in those shoes. A can opener can open cans but nothing more. Sure you gain one piece of functionality, but you lose others. Geordi’s visor was a bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum, but also a bunch of other stuff.
minus-square14th_cylon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-219 minutes ago bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum he could not: https://i.imgur.com/dlVpyIo.mp4 would you want to see like that? i mean if you were born blind and this was your only option, it is definitely better than nothing, but other than that, it is hard no from me.
I mean a can opener is very different, no? Or at least it is when I try to put myself in those shoes.
A can opener can open cans but nothing more. Sure you gain one piece of functionality, but you lose others.
Geordi’s visor was a bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum, but also a bunch of other stuff.
he could not: https://i.imgur.com/dlVpyIo.mp4
would you want to see like that? i mean if you were born blind and this was your only option, it is definitely better than nothing, but other than that, it is hard no from me.