These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.

  • Bahalex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “he spun off the company Second Sight with three cofounders in 1998”

    The rest of the sentence from your quote. The company that put these implants into people was, from what I understand, indeed for profit.

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      1 year ago

      Kind of hard to operate a company without also making money doing so. The two are not mutually exclusive to each other.