Popular Mechanics: "These breakthroughs could restore sight for millions of people" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a71549372/breakthroughs-to-restore-sight/
These Breakthroughs Could Restore Sight for Millions of People

Revolutionary devices, age rewinding, and cell regeneration: scientists are finding multiple promising approaches for curing blindness, and even for stopping vision loss before it starts.

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Déjà vu? CNN, in 2002: Could bionic eye end blindness? On the Dobelle brain implant for restoring vision https://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/06/13/bionic.eye/ "We are at the beginning of the end of blindness with this type of technology." #BCI #blindness
CNN.com - Could bionic eye end blindness? - June 13, 2002

Artificial vision for the blind was once the stuff of science fiction -- Lt. Geordi La Forge's visor on Star Trek or the bionic eye of The Six Million Dollar Man.