In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed. Mary Lou Jepsen More Quotes by Mary Lou Jepsen More Quotes From Mary Lou Jepsen I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left. Mary Lou Jepsen lastgoogleleftwomen 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. Mary Lou Jepsen drivepowereasytoday 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. Mary Lou Jepsen doingphysicsmoonhumanity Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see. Mary Lou Jepsen youlightmoonhumanity 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. Mary Lou Jepsen feelyoulovereality 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. Mary Lou Jepsen meyoumusicthinking If I throw you into an MRI machine right now, I can tell you what words you're about to say. Mary Lou Jepsen wordssayyoui-can Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers. But why not take a noninvasive approach? I've been working and trying to think and invent a way to do this for a number of years and finally happened upon it and left Facebook to do it. Mary Lou Jepsen computersthinktalkingway I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile. Mary Lou Jepsen leavesomenewwork I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible. Mary Lou Jepsen doingthinkimpossibletrying I started a company called Pixel Qi and the principal of as we're going, smartphones were happening, but as we go forward, the predictions were five devices per person. Do you want to charge each one of those every night to try to get them on a full charge when you're walking around? Smartphones don't even last a day without a recharge now. Mary Lou Jepsen dayyouwalkingnight I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing. Mary Lou Jepsen thoughtshowcreatenever After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters. Mary Lou Jepsen deadmattermissingbrain 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. Mary Lou Jepsen thinkyouinternetlanguage Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking. Mary Lou Jepsen mesimplemindtoday I'm actually an engineer. Mary Lou Jepsen engineeractually Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing. Mary Lou Jepsen goodknowwaymoving If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do. Mary Lou Jepsen aithoughtrobotscreativity 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. Mary Lou Jepsen hatmachineouthow My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain. Mary Lou Jepsen cell-phonesthroughspeedbrain
