In 2006, Matt Nagel was strapped into all these supercomputers to be able to write an email with his thoughts. Where are we right now in terms of that kind of that advance of that technology that's 16 years ago? And it does feel like we're getting at this interesting point because again, I don't need to tell you Elon Musk has brought a lot of attention good or bad to this field.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marcus Gerhardt, chief executive of Blackrock Neurotech, to talk about his boarding school days in Wales (4:00), his dotcom adventures (10:00), pivoting to brain-computer interfaces (16:00), the “Utah array” (18:40), how in 2006 the first person sent an email with his thoughts (20:30), starting the company (23:00), the state of the technology today (26:40), targeting tetraplegics (33:00), getting investment (38:15), going to market (41:30), and reaching an inflection point (47:40).
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