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Blackrock Neurotech's Marcus Gerhardt: "An inflection point for brain-computer interfaces"

The Times Tech Podcast

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What's the Killer App?

"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

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