The Blind might be able to see in future

The only new computer software we have been hearing about is Malware. Here is one that kindles the hope, that we can still come up with something that could actually help 

Interesting note "The technology not only gives “sight” to the blind, but also challenges the way neurologists think the brain is organized."

Researchers had long believed that if those regions aren’t used for their intended sense, they are repurposed for other uses; for example, the visual cortex of someone blind from birth could be used to help boost her hearing. But Amedi and his colleagues found that the area of the visual cortex responsible for recognizing body shapes in sighted people—called the extrastriate body area—lit up with activity in the study participants when they were interpreting the human silhouettes.

The links below has more details:

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/03/computer-program-allows-blind-see-sound