Wu: Today's biohackers mirror the 1970s Homebrew Computing Club
Jeffrey Wu · a16z Podcast | The Future of... You · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:30
Jeffrey Wu, co-founder of Nootrobox, compares the modern biohacking and cognitive enhancement movement to early personal computer enthusiast clubs during an a16z podcast discussion.
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“If the Homebrew Computing Club was a group of hobbyists, a bunch of tinkerers around computer parts in the seventies, eighties I feel like that same kind of excitement, enthusiasm, Are the biohackers today, where people are tinkering with human inputs and tracking all these different biometrics.”
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