Hodak: Vision, hearing, balance, and 1 kbps motor control unlock radical neurotech
Max Hodak · From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak · Aug 20, 2026 · at 14:06
Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corporation, outlines why Science focuses on primary sensory I/O channels over simple thought-to-text consumer BCIs.
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“If you can, if you get vision, hearing, balance, and a kilobit per second of motor control, you're halfway to the matrix. And this takes you into some like really trippy interpret reinterpretations of medicine.”
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