{"id":35485,"date":"2017-03-20T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-mary-lou-jepsen-left-facebook-to-transform-health-care-and-invent-consumer-telepathy"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:44:31","slug":"why-mary-lou-jepsen-left-facebook-to-transform-health-care-and-invent-consumer-telepathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-mary-lou-jepsen-left-facebook-to-transform-health-care-and-invent-consumer-telepathy","title":{"rendered":"Why Mary Lou Jepsen Left Facebook: To Transform Health Care and Invent Consumer Telepathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-mary-lou-jepsen-left-facebook-to-transform-health-care-and-invent-consumer-telepathy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYep, transforming health care and telepathy, those are the items on her to-do list. Jepsen plans to achieve both goals with a cheap wearable device that her engineers are now tinkering with in the lab. And then there\u2019s the side benefit of reinvigorating the tired consumer electronics industry, which Jepsen thinks is due for the next big thing.<\/p>\n<p>Jepsen was at SXSW to give a talk about Openwater, her new startup. While the company is still conducting R&amp;D to decide on its first products, Jepsen feels the need to speak out now about what she\u2019s building and how she thinks her technology could radically change society. She wants to give people fair warning and time to think about what\u2019s coming. \u201cI know it seems outlandish to be talking about telepathy, but it\u2019s completely solid physics and mathematical principles\u2014it\u2019s in reach in the next three years,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, she\u2019s sick of stealth mode. \u201cI haven\u2019t been able to to talk about what I\u2019ve been doing for five and half years while I was at Google and Facebook, and I don\u2019t think secrecy is useful,\u201d she says. She left Facebook in August, and in September she filed patents for her Openwater technology, which she expects to be issued any day now.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/imaging\/why-mary-lou-jepsen-left-facebook-to-transform-heath-care-and-invent-consumer-telepathy\">http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/imaging\/why...-telepathy<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYep, transforming health care and telepathy, those are the items on her to-do list. Jepsen plans to achieve both goals with a cheap wearable device that her engineers are now tinkering with in the lab. And then there\u2019s the side benefit of reinvigorating the tired consumer electronics industry, which Jepsen thinks is due for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,2229,47,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48451,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions\/48451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}