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The Times Tech Podcast

Openwater's Mary Lou Jepson: "Telepathy is inevitable"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of Openwater, to talk about how her near-death experience (3:05), and how it inspired her to start Openwater (5:50), developing a way to see inside our bodies (9:00) how it works (12:30), telepathy (19:45), the brain as the last bastion of privacy (24:20), the future of depression (26:40), the death of language (31:10), the brain as the final frontier (333:55), why she is so open about the issues this technology conjures (38:30), the problem with MRI’s (43:10), and why decoding the brain is inevitable (51:50).

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for tuning in to Danny in the Valley.

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Just a quick programming note before we get started today.

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And last week's show, I promised you two shows this week.

0:10.0

I have to break that promise.

0:12.0

My intended guest got sick. Tis the season.

0:16.0

But fear not, it is Christmas after all, and I can assure you 100% that next week we will be dropping two

0:23.7

episodes before we take a little Christmas respite so I wanted to leave you with a little

0:27.5

some extra before you everybody disappears into full Christmas party mode and getting

0:34.0

turkey coma and everything else so we will be doing two shows next week,

0:38.2

and then we're going to be taking a short holiday break

0:41.0

for Christmas week and New Year's Week.

0:42.4

So we'll be off two weeks and then back,

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and we'll kind of keep the party going then.

0:46.1

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1:02.9

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1:09.5

Yo, technology.

1:12.0

What is it all about?

1:13.5

It's this last bastion of privacy.

1:15.8

Your brain.

1:16.8

Yeah.

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