"I am in no two minds that this vision that you just talked about of us potentially being able to communicate with each other through a BCI without actually uttering the words out loud is possible and will happen," he says. " Enhancement is already happening today, when I see a tetraplegic patient being able to operate a system faster than an able-bodied person." The company has created an ethics advisory board and we'll be announcing that shortly as well. It's why we felt that we need to start asking these very important questions today. To address neurological disorders and use this technology in the here and now and help patients. A no brainer. But the next part is
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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