Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder of Openwater whose goal is a wearable with MRI-plus resolution that can enable telepathy as well as drastically transform diagnostic costs for healthcare. Previously she was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] and Intel. In addition Mary Lou has founded 4 startups including One Laptop per Child where she was CTO, chief architect and delivered to mass production the $100 laptop. Her startup CEO experience includes the world’s only fabless display screen company which was based in Taipei. She has been a professor at both MITs: RMIT in Australia and MIT in Cambridge. She is an inventor of ~200 published or issued patents and has shipped billions of dollars worth of consumer electronics on the hairy edge of what the physics will do. She has been recognized with many awards including TIME magazine’s “Time 100” as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and as a CNN top 10 thinker.
Mary Lou Jepsen on Seeing Inside the Body, Communicating with the Brain
Description: Veteran hardware engineer Mary Lou Jepsen is a harbinger for a new generation of imaging technologies. High resolution, low power LEDs can look inside the body for medical diagnoses and treatments, and even ultimately brain-to-brain communication. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Speaker: Mary Lou Jepsen, Openwater Introduction: David Kirkpatrick, […]
Can We Handle the Coming Convergence of Man and Machine?
Session Description: It seems like computers are starting to merge with our minds, bodies, and maybe even our souls. What new society emerges? What strange, semi-automated netherworld are we hurtling towards? The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: Let me quickly introduce you to our four panelists here. From the far end, Benjamin […]
The Future of Reality
The Future of Reality: Will Seeing be Believing? Augmented and virtual reality interfaces will almost certainly be how we interact with devices in the future. They will remake not just entertainment, but work, learning, health, and day-to-day living. What will be the cyber-worlds, cyber markets and cyber governments of the future?
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Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
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Techonomy 17
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
