EP Global Communications Inc fka EPGL

[MoneyForNuthin]

Well, I appreciate that you have your own opinion, even though it seems at odds with leaders in the market and industry.

Your comment sounds almost exactly like what I heard from my first boss (an engineering manager, when I put in a requisition for an IBM PC in 1987):

As I see it, vision augmentation lenses, if they ever do exist, are a niche market at best...

I cannot believe that vision augmentation alone can be a billion dollar industry...

I personally disagree with your view. I think there will be a large market, and I'll look forward to the auto-focus solution. As soon as it becomes available, I'm a good candidate. I like contacts, but I am over 50 now, and I have 6 different scenarios from near to long range vision that I have to deal with. So wearing trifocals that I can put on and take off is one solution, but I prefer using several different pairs of glasses. Auto-focus eliminates all of my issues!

I told my boss that our department could greatly improve throughput and productivity, and I told him that he just doesn't realize - within a short time from now, EVERYONE will have a computer on their desk at work, not to mention at home. He kindof chuckled and said about what you said here. And then when I told him I wanted the larger 20 megabyte hard drive, he about gagged - "You will NEVER need more than the 10 megabyte hard drive that we have on the 'department computer' that we just bought last year."

Not only did he guess wrong about the personal computer, but Gordon Moore came along and his "Moore's Law" was adapted to everything from IC transistors to main memory to hard drives, and the hard drive size keeps getting bigger... we went from those 10 megabytes to what? TerraBytes being the norm.

Intel and IBM and Microsoft and Compaq and Dell and others all knew better.

Just like Novartis and COO others know their industry.