glasses werent something you saw someone wear most of the time in 2342 because technology had ways of fixing flat eyes permanently in just a few minutes but the rather young doctor had for some reason decided to not have the surgery done , to a lot of his staffs astonishment considering he was the one whos research in the field of human biology had resulted in the most major breakthroughs in the last decade with eyesight , among other things people took for granted with age .