In articulating ones reaction to the innovation of bionic contact lenses, one comes to the problem of progress. At first glance, this innovation seems highly progressive and possesses many beneficial enhancements for human beings. As one digs further, it is evident that this innovative development does not actually fix the biological visual problems, rather merely masks these underlying eye conditions to seem corrected to the user. When a user takes out the contact lenses, their eye impairment is unaltered and still at the same level. The troubling idea behind this masking of the true visual problem is what if the condition is progressively getting worse and they are declining in actual visual ability, which would be picked up by the sensors, yet the user may not mind this knowledge as are living through this mask that enables them to see perfectly so it does not affect them directly. The idea is then prompted that what if the visual medical problem gets so impaired while one is wearing these contact lenses that it results in one being unable to live without this robotic aspect of oneself to function daily.
A mass sentiment reaction described by Arendt to this bionic contact lens technology could be one that it would be more beneficial to spend time on finding actual concrete cures or solutions to these eye generative diseases or impairments in sight, rather than creating elaborate Band-Aid solutions that captivate public interest. This bionic innovation changes the human condition by changing what it means to be human through altering the abilities human beings can posses. The bionic eye produces mixed mass reactions of hope and fear, as humans hope for enhanced medical technologies due to the nostalgia of loved ones suffering from diseases, which can now be altered. This technology challenges ones notion of what it is to be human, which produces a mass reaction of fear for the unknown or artificial as one does not know if this is taking away the originality of the human identity by replacing human functioning with robotics. This fear is spread by the notion that these bionic technologies are turning human beings into possessing the identity of being generated and replaceable mass-produced machines.
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