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Mary Lou Jepsen is a pioneering inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist working at the intersection of imaging, neurotechnology, and healthcare. She is the founder and CEO of Openwater, a company developing cutting-edge technologies to replace bulky hospital machines with wearable, high-resolution imaging tools—potentially transforming how we diagnose and treat disease. Formerly an executive at Facebook, Google[x], and Intel, and co-founder of One Laptop per Child, Mary Lou’s work pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in human-computer interaction, with bold implications for brain-computer interfaces, radical healthcare access, and the future of communication.
Sora is a GenAI tool from OpenAI.
What if the technologies we fear most could help us become more human? In this vision, brain-computer interfaces don’t isolate or surveil us—they dissolve misunderstanding, cure mental illness, and expand our capacity for empathy. By increasing the bandwidth of communication and letting us truly “step into someone else’s mind,” neurotech could help overcome one of humanity’s oldest bottlenecks: ourselves.
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