Just read through this. The one I think they’re absolutely dead wrong on is eye glasses. Those aren’t going anywhere, especially with the proportion of the population with myopia actually increasing.
They’ve had contact lenses for over 60 years (my mom is 77 and started wearing contacts in high school) and those haven’t been the death of eye glasses. I started wearing glasses at age 6 and switched to contacts at age 13 and then went back to glasses at age 34 because contacts bother my eyes now.
Surgeries are expensive and unreliable. For every friend I have that got eye surgery and was pleased with the results I have another that regretted it due to side effects like dry eyes, halos at night, or migraines. Most people I talk to say they’re not interested in surgery due to either cost or side effects. As for the drops mentioned in the article, as I understand it from my son’s optometrist (as my son got prescribed glasses just this past week) those drops only prevent myopia from getting worse, it doesn’t reverse it, and the actual statistical evidence behind the effectiveness of those drops are pretty dubious to begin with.
