2024-07-25
37 分钟That’s the worry. Even the humble eyeglass industry is dominated by a single firm. We look into the global spike in myopia, how the Lemtosh got its name, and what your eye doctor knows that you don’t. (Part two of a two-part series.)
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Last week, in part one of this series, we heard about the long and strange history of eyeglasses.
What we often see in early art are representations of the devil wearing spectacles.
And we learned how.
Today, the $150 billion eyewear industry has one dominant player, a french italian conglomerate called Esselor Luxottica.