The Times Tech Podcast

Blackrock Neurotech's Marcus Gerhardt: "An inflection point for brain-computer interfaces"

Oct 28, 2022 · 54 min · Season 1 · 65.2 MB
0:00-54:22

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marcus Gerhardt, chief executive of Blackrock Neurotech, to talk about his boarding school days in Wales (4:00), his dotcom adventures (10:00), pivoting to brain-computer interfaces (16:00), the “Utah array” (18:40), how in 2006 the first person sent an email with his thoughts (20:30), starting the company (23:00), the state of the technology today (26:40), targeting tetraplegics (33:00), getting investment (38:15), going to market (41:30), and reaching an inflection point (47:40).

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