Hearing-aid technology?

Scientists all around the world agree that our ipod-listening generation is going to grow up deaf, like by the time we’re 30/40 we will be as hard as hearing as our grandparents at 70. So my question is, if the whole world/generation will be like that, then the demand for hearing technology will go up, right? And if the demand goes up the “supply” goes up. So do you thing that by a couple of decades hearing technology will advance simply because that is the demand?
Just to clarify, i wasn’t asking if the technology will get cheaper, i was asking if it will get more advanced, quicker than it would normally have advanced if it didn’t have the high demand.

we have devices that allow you to hear a conversation through a solid wall for the same price as a simple hearing aid. Hearing aids cost a fortune(way more than they’re worth) when, technologically, they cost less to manufacturer than an ipod. So to answer your question, so long as the companies that make hearing aids continue to rip off there customers, then no, demand won’t outstrip supply, and prices won’t come down.

In the case of hearing aids, cheaper is more advanced, because we’ve already reached the penacle of what we can do with them, like I said, we can hear through solid walls now, as it is. They may eventually get more advanced batteries eventually. Of course, if science could just find a cure for bad hearing, than we can all just throw our hearing aids in the garbage.

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