What about Adaptive Optics? Links included. (Score 1)

Someone mentioned 10/20 vision. I read a few articles on Adaptive Optics (a technology used in Astronomy telescopes) which will be applied to corrective vision for the eye in a few years either through surgery or contact lenses.

Just to summarize, according to the articles below, the main difference is that currently eye doctors can identify 2 abberations, astigmatism and improper focus. Using lasers, they can measure the eye's topology and identify up to 65 aberrations, therefore creating a more customized correction for every eye.

My vision is currently 20/20 but I sense it is slipping. I figure this technology will have gone through enough paces in 10 years, just when my eyes are bad enough to require correction. By then, the technology will be something closer to "bionic man".

Here are some links worth reading.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews /s upervision060900.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/06/000 61 2084400.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,3703 2, 00.html

http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/99-00/08-02/optics. ht m