> Dom wrote:
> > > I agree but there are so many young people with myopia now. The aging
> > > population we'd expect. Is it just that people used to put off wearing full
> > > time and now because they're fashionable young folks are happier to wear them?
> > > Yes I think that's a part of it.
> > Does that mean that there ae more people with poor eyesight - ie myopia - or
> just that there are more people wearing them with lower prescriptions? That's
> alot different to a myopia explosion.

> > I agree but there are so many young people with myopia now. The aging
> > population we'd expect. Is it just that people used to put off wearing full
> > time and now because they're fashionable young folks are happier to wear them?
> Yes I think that's a part of it.
Does that mean that there ae more people with poor eyesight - ie myopia - or

> I agree but there are so many young people with myopia now. The aging
> population we'd expect. Is it just that people used to put off wearing full
> time and now because they're fashionable young folks are happier to wear them?

> Or is there something that means we're going in the same direction as the
> asians, in 50 years time will we have the same stats i wonder?

> > Am I right in thinking that there are more people who wear glasses now than
> > ever before? Why is it - are the challenges of new technology and office
> > jobs making it worse or is it just that it's more acceptable now? I hear
> > stories of people who were wearing glasses in the days of the NHS (in the UK),
> > those glasses were so famous for being very undesirable. Presumably there
> > might be fewer people with glasses if that was still the only choice.
> I don't know what the stats are on the percentage of people who wear
> glasses, but there probably are more people wearing glasses, and I'm
> sure it's a combination of the two points you made - increased demand
> due to computers etc, and higher acceptance of glasses as a fashion
> item... also, the ageing of the population and increased awareness of
> the need for regular preventative health checks in general has probably
> flowed over into eye testing/specs.
> Only my opinions rather than research I've read.
> Dom

> Dear Ace and Michael,
> Subject: The scientific facts on the natural eye's response
> to a more-confined visual environment.
> Hear are the facts. You can argue about whether 85 percent
> of school childern becomming myopic means that
> our eye are getting "worse".

> Am I right in thinking that there are more people who wear glasses now than
> ever before? Why is it - are the challenges of new technology and office
> jobs making it worse or is it just that it's more acceptable now? I hear
> stories of people who were wearing glasses in the days of the NHS (in the UK),
> those glasses were so famous for being very undesirable. Presumably there
> might be fewer people with glasses if that was still the only choice.

> Neil Brooks wrote:
> > otisbrown[at]pa.net wrote:
> > > > Theory 4: Trust me -- everyone else
> > > is WRONG about the dynamic nature
> > > of the fundamental eye.
> > > Just so we're clear, Cletis ... is that the right eye or
> > the left.
> No. It's the right eye or the wrong eye.
> The part you missed is that he slipped in a fundamental
> eye instead of his worn out natural eye.
> chicken eye - wrong eye.
> monkey eye - wrong eye.
> primate eye - wrong eye
> fundamental eye - haven't seen one of those up close yet.
> right eye - missing.

> otisbrown[at]pa.net wrote:
> > Theory 4: Trust me -- everyone else
> > is WRONG about the dynamic nature
> > of the fundamental eye.
> Just so we're clear, Cletis ... is that the right eye or
> the left.

> otisbrown[at]pa.net wrote:
> > Theory 4: Trust me -- everyone else
> > is WRONG about the dynamic nature
> > of the fundamental eye.
> Just so we're clear, Cletis ... is that the right eye or
> the left.

> Theory 4: Trust me -- everyone else
> is WRONG about the dynamic nature
> of the fundamental eye.