transformative technologies start with a narrow sympathetic use case & then expand:
• The internet → originally for defense and academia
• GPS → originally military
• smartphones → originally enterprise tools
BCIs may follow a similar path:
1. Medical treatment
2. Assistive technology
3. Human-computer interface for everyone 😳
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tether-bci-achieves-global-academic-recognition-neural-speech-decoding-9tqaf
MattA
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2026-03-16 15:15:12 UTC
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