Elon is at it again. One of his latest variety of astonishing announcements, I knew was coming, which is the pending downsizing of Tesla car manufacturing. The electric car competition, mostly from China, has his car sales dropping and he’s changing directions while they’re still profitable by announcing that he’s converting one big Tesla factory over to full time Optimus robot production.
What I didn’t see coming was his revelation about giving blind people eyesight.
He has implants being developed that will replace non-working or missing eyes. I assume you’d still need viable optic nerves at the back of the eye socket to connect to, for this to work, but if the damage goes farther back in than that, you’re probably already dead anyway.
He said that visual definition will be low grade at first, probably Windows 95 quality, but will steadily increase as the product development matures.
Science Fiction has turned out to be science prediction. So think about this:
Cosmologists argue, but regardless, our Universe is somewhere between 13.5 to over 21 billion years old with billions of vast galaxies containing many trillions of stars and quadrillions of planets. There must be many temperate planets where intelligent life came and went and many now where it flourishes, and many that have survived for millions of years, developing their technology to it’s limits.
And some that very possibly found Earth aeons ago and keep an eye on us. If they were as aggressive as the old Sci-Fi stories and movies had it, we would have been wiped out long ago. Certainly, there must have been some like that, surging out into space to conquer. Star Wars might even be a parody of history. So now, look at us. Our technology is leaping forward. If some of those UFO/UAPs aren’t already being made by us, and my money is that they are, then they soon will be.
We’re moving into space. We’re already exploring our neighboring planets with robots and we will be moving out to the nearest stars eventually. The Tale of Humanity has a lot of pages ahead of it that will be filled with wonder.