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" The future of reading is screens. Books are toast. "
Mary Lou Jepsen
Screens
Books
Future
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" You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities. "
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" If I throw you into an MRI machine right now, I can tell you what words you're about to say. "
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" Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions. "
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" A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years. "
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" I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time. "
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" My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations. "
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" There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps. "
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" I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun. "
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" I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will. "
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" The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible. "
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" More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize. "
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" I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine - a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine - into a wearable in the form of a ski hat. "
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Out
Form
Hat
" I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents. "
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Thought
Parents
Rest
" I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible. "
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Trying
Think
Point
" I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing. "
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Never
How
Dreaming
" As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. "
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Go
Ready
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" When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person. "
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Thought
Company
Google
" I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology. "
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Technology
Really
Cool
" I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays. "
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People
Who
Know
" These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea. "
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Days
Small
Number
" I'm actually an engineer. "
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Engineer
Actually
" I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics. "
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Moon
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See
" One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer. "
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World
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Technology
" Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light. "
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Light
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Power
" All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's easy to put a solar cell into a device, but it's not powerful enough to drive today's cell phones or laptops. They need too much power to run. "
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Small
Drive
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" I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if you're listening to me or not. That's possible with an MRI now. "
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Listening
Music
Me
" Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design. "
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Me
Meet
Tell
" The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger. "
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Much
Bigger
About
" My health used to limit me, but now it's sort of an advantage. "
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Advantage
Me
Limit