Comment by sydbarrett74
1 year ago
TL;DR: Myopia can be staved off by spending more time outside. Unfortunately, accelerating climate change will mean that fewer people will be able to thrive outdoors for extended periods. I hope things like full-spectrum indoor light sources paired with larger screens or projected images 10+ feet away can allow people to regain some of sunlight's benefits without having to contend with scorching temperatures.
I suffer from horrible myopia. I've been an indoorsy bookworm and techie for most of my life and had my first pair of glasses at age 9. Now that I'm almost 50, my eyes are atrocious.
People will blame literally anything on climate change
Hah. Climate change be damned -- if I had to do it all over, I'd still be inside constantly! :D Miss out on the best things in life (video games, coding) so my last few decades are better? That doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. You should accept you gotta go sometime, and you should have a good time until then!
"Spending time outdoors" is a pre-computers anachronism. You're better off hoping for cybernetic eye implants.
But once you have cybernetic eye implants, why stay indoors? You can lie on a grass in a forest and code.
We will stop fighting myopia and start fighting ticks and mosquitoes, I guess...
Modulo mosquitoes, ants, Lyme disease, temperature, dirt, and laziness, I'd totally code in a forest with AR cybereyes. B] The twin enemies of ergonomics and glare defeated at last!