"New discoveries about lighting and human health - its impact on breast cancer and Alzheimer's, for example - make us predict that the way we light our offices, homes, and factories will be subject to massive change." So says John P. Bachner, communications director of the National Lighting Bureau, a not-for-profit information resource funded by private industry, professional societies, trade associations, and agencies of the federal government. "Up to now," Bachner continued, "lighting has been designed almost exclusively to support visual needs. A growing body of research tells us that lighting can do far more than help us see, however. As we learn more, new lighting system components will be created not only to enhance our visual performance, but to help prevent disease as well."
