Signals from the Future: SALT talk: Toward Practical Telepathy

We're delighted that we've been given permission by the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco to show HD screenings from their compelling Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) series of talks.

This series of talks attracts world-class speakers from academia, science, business and culture and invites them to talk about their work in a 10,000 year context.

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With her stunning breakthroughs in neural imaging, Mary Lou Jepsen is making the brain readable (and stimulatable) in real time. That will revolutionize brain study and brain medicine, but what about brain communication? Could a direct high-resolution interface to the brain lead to what might be called practical mental telepathy? What are the prospects for brain enhancement?

What are the ethics of direct brain reading and intervention?

Mary Lou Jepsen founds programs and companies on the hairy edges of physics, invents solutions and takes them to prototype all the way through to high volume mass production. She's done this at Intel, MIT’s Media Lab, One Laptop Per Child, Pixel Qi, Google X, and Facebook (Oculus). She is the founder and CEO of [Openwater](https://www.openwater.cc/), which is "devising a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications.

Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Openwater. Previously she was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google X, and Intel, as well as a founder of four startups. She has over 100 published or issued patents.

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We will dim the light and project the talks onto the big screen in full HD, then follow up with informal discussion and networking. Each talk is 60 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of questions with Stewart Brand.

We're calling our events *Signals from the Future*, and after the screening we'll follow up with refreshments and informal discussion. The screening are in English language.

This event is a part of the Waterkant Festival, supported by the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry for Economic Affairs, Transport, Employment, Technology and Tourism.

Warning: This talk includes some graphic imagery with brains and stuff, which can be a little hard to watch and challenge your ethics.