Mojo Vision’s smart contact lens was pronounced dead in 2023. The patents never stopped: 125 grants, an implant for the blind, Air Force trials, and a $1.35B Dubai startup. The tech was fine. The customer was wrong.
Kurzweil’s 2005 computing predictions split along a clean line: bolt a computer to a face and it ships; bolt one to a star and twenty-one years of exponential scaling has not moved it.