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The next major technological advancement for computing after the smartphone: BCI But what is BCI? "It's a brain-computer interface. So something that directly inputs and outputs information into your brain and connects to your neurons. So the most famous example is obviously Neuralink from Elon. Neuralink is doing is having a robot that is inserting these threads into your brain. And they're able to do a lot of really cool things with that, so they can give someone that was not able to move his arms for a very long time now, able to control the cursor and use the computer again, etc.. So that has been like a standard application. But there's more ideas, you know, making blind people see. Again, the general idea is like BCIs are all kinds of systems that can directly interface with the brain. And the long term goal is that you get to much higher bandwidth than what we can do with a keyboard." Full breakdown in our interview with Alex Blania (@alexblania) Co-Founder of Merge Labs with Sam Altman (@sama), Mikhail Shapiro (@mikhailshapiro), Sumner Norman (@SumnerLN), Sandro Herbig (@sandroherbig), & Tyson Aflalo

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