Matthew MacDougall

I can't wait to see what people do with it. I feel like we're cavemen right now. We're like banging rocks with a stick and thinking that we're making music. At some point, when these are more widespread, there's going to be the equivalent of a piano that someone can make art with their brain in a way that we didn't even anticipate. I'm looking forward to it.

I can't wait to see what people do with it. I feel like we're cavemen right now. We're like banging rocks with a stick and thinking that we're making music. At some point, when these are more widespread, there's going to be the equivalent of a piano that someone can make art with their brain in a way that we didn't even anticipate. I'm looking forward to it.

I can't wait to see what people do with it. I feel like we're cavemen right now. We're like banging rocks with a stick and thinking that we're making music. At some point, when these are more widespread, there's going to be the equivalent of a piano that someone can make art with their brain in a way that we didn't even anticipate. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm not the first one. There's this whole community of weirdo biohackers that have done this stuff. And I think one of the early use cases was storing private crypto wallet keys and whatever. I dabbled in that a bit and had some fun with it.

I'm not the first one. There's this whole community of weirdo biohackers that have done this stuff. And I think one of the early use cases was storing private crypto wallet keys and whatever. I dabbled in that a bit and had some fun with it.

I'm not the first one. There's this whole community of weirdo biohackers that have done this stuff. And I think one of the early use cases was storing private crypto wallet keys and whatever. I dabbled in that a bit and had some fun with it.

Actually, yeah. It was the modern-day equivalent of finding change in the sofa cushions. I put some orphan crypto on there that I thought was worthless and forgot about it for a few years. Went back and found that some community of people loved it and had propped up the value of it, and so it had gone up 50-fold. So there was a lot of change in those cushions. That's hilarious.

Actually, yeah. It was the modern-day equivalent of finding change in the sofa cushions. I put some orphan crypto on there that I thought was worthless and forgot about it for a few years. Went back and found that some community of people loved it and had propped up the value of it, and so it had gone up 50-fold. So there was a lot of change in those cushions. That's hilarious.

Actually, yeah. It was the modern-day equivalent of finding change in the sofa cushions. I put some orphan crypto on there that I thought was worthless and forgot about it for a few years. Went back and found that some community of people loved it and had propped up the value of it, and so it had gone up 50-fold. So there was a lot of change in those cushions. That's hilarious.

But the primary use case is mostly as a tech demonstrator. It has my business card on it. You can scan that in by touching it to your phone. It opens the front door to my house, whatever simple stuff.

But the primary use case is mostly as a tech demonstrator. It has my business card on it. You can scan that in by touching it to your phone. It opens the front door to my house, whatever simple stuff.

But the primary use case is mostly as a tech demonstrator. It has my business card on it. You can scan that in by touching it to your phone. It opens the front door to my house, whatever simple stuff.

Yeah, we have a kind of a mysticism around the barrier of our skin. We're completely fine with knee replacements, hip replacements, dental implants. But there's a mysticism still around the inviolable barrier that the skull represents. And I think that needs to be treated like any other pragmatic barrier. The question isn't how incredible is it to open the skull?

Yeah, we have a kind of a mysticism around the barrier of our skin. We're completely fine with knee replacements, hip replacements, dental implants. But there's a mysticism still around the inviolable barrier that the skull represents. And I think that needs to be treated like any other pragmatic barrier. The question isn't how incredible is it to open the skull?

Yeah, we have a kind of a mysticism around the barrier of our skin. We're completely fine with knee replacements, hip replacements, dental implants. But there's a mysticism still around the inviolable barrier that the skull represents. And I think that needs to be treated like any other pragmatic barrier. The question isn't how incredible is it to open the skull?

The question is, what benefit can we provide?

The question is, what benefit can we provide?

The question is, what benefit can we provide?

The answer that is sad for me and other people of my demographic is that plasticity decreases with age. Healing decreases with age. I have too much gray hair to... To be optimistic about that. There are theoretical ways to increase plasticity using electrical stimulation, nothing that is totally proven out as a robust enough mechanism to offer widely to people.

The answer that is sad for me and other people of my demographic is that plasticity decreases with age. Healing decreases with age. I have too much gray hair to... To be optimistic about that. There are theoretical ways to increase plasticity using electrical stimulation, nothing that is totally proven out as a robust enough mechanism to offer widely to people.