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We've got 30 million patients with cognitive issues that don't have a voice to complain, to know how big a problem this is. But most importantly, how exciting would it be if the entire human race got 30% smarter? We'd start to solve bigger, harder problems. We'd get off this planet. So I'm really excited about the prospect of Human 2.0 driven by a neurotechnology revolution. And so I'll stay working on this for the rest of my life.

We thought, well, if you could capture what that signature was in the brain, which is possible, and manipulate that oscillation in the brain, then you'd have the effect of being able to process much faster. So time isn't changing. Your perception of time is changing. There is some proof that that happens already, organically, and you could manipulate that using devices that currently exist.

We envision a future that, instead of people lining up to get the latest Apple phone, they're lining up to get upgrades to their implanted systems. That sounds way far off, but it's not. It's in a 10-15 year time frame; it'll be in our lifetime. And here's the reason why: The brain naturally wants to be part of a social network. So the reason you actually cannot not pay attention to your phone - is that your brain is addicted to being connected into this social network. But it's actually frustrating for your brain to have to have the delay between a thought, cognitive activity, and your fingers doing typing. So just like the cell phone and Facebook have driven adoption of new technology because we all want to be closer and more networked and more information needs to get into our nervous system, if we make the devices minimally invasive enough, there's not much difference to carrying a cell phone in your hand 24/7, sleeping with it, and having that same technology planted directly into the nervous system. That's where we think it's going to go. Then it becomes a software upgrade to get to new capabilities for your nervous system.

The future is glaringly bright for in this space. The introduction of these systems to resolve an over-burdened system caring for overly-sick patients will make a profound impact on how our communities grow older and how we take care of our sick.