On Wed, 07 May 2003, John Kozubik wrote:
Eyeglasses have become common only in the past 100 years (and arguably in the past 60 years, about since the time visits to eye doctors became common). While there have been jokes about "four eyes" not breeding,
Another possibility is that a large population of those with corrected vision had their vision slowly degraded by the early applications of the correction. I have no experience with vision correction, but I know anecdotally that most people with corrected vision need their corrections strengthened throughout their lifetime. In reality, their sight problem
I'm not sure that that's true. I'm certainly not a test case, and I won't hold up my circle of friends as one either. But, being someone who just turned 30 and finding that my prescription is drifting back in the general direction of "normal", I find that an odd assertion. I try to code for a living, when I'm not solving the getting-projects-to-code problem. That involves me staring at a terminal about 14 hours a day, on average. And my vision is getting better. -j -- Jamie Lawrence jal@jal.org First law of debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.