Mary Lou Jepsen
description: technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware. Her contributions have had worldwide adoption in head-mounted display, HDTV, laptop computers, and projector products
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We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
avoided, and the chance to feed our growing world, the writing is on the wall—and the Six Ds put it there. The Diagnostic Divide Mary Lou Jepsen grew up on a small farm in Connecticut. Her father was an auto mechanic who taught her how to fix things—and if you can
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fix things, you can build things. And build things is exactly what Mary Lou Jepsen did. She studied art and electrical engineering at Brown, went to graduate school in holography at the MIT Media Lab, then returned to Brown for
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noninvasive approaches, including high-density EEG, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, and other methods for capturing signals from the surface of the skull. Earlier, we explored Mary Lou Jepsen’s Openwater, which is one example. Her device uses near-infrared light and ultrasound for neural imaging, giving us portable access to thought-level data
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-lab-grown-burger-gets-a-taste-test.html. the first holographic video display: Jordan Harbinger, “Mary Lou Jepsen & Rob Reid | The Future of Telepathy & Affordable Healthcare,” The Jordan Harbinger Show, June 13, 2018, https://www.jordanharbinger.com/mary-lou-jepsen-rob-reid-the-future-of-telepathy-and-affordable-healthcare/. OLPC drove that down to $180: Adi
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words
will soon be able to track anything from wound healing to fetus growth from the comfort of your home. Or former Google X project leader Mary Lou Jepsen’s startup, Openwater, which is using red laser holography to create a portable MRI equivalent, turning what is today a multimillion-dollar machine into a
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/Exo-Imaging-Emerges-Stealth-Mode-35M-Series|. See also: https://www.exo-imaging.com/. (Author note: Peter’s VC firm is an investor.) Mary Lou Jepsen’s startup, Openwater: Mary Lou Jepsen gave a TED Talk about Openwater that you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awADEuv5vWY. See also: https://www.openwater.cc
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child
by Morgan G. Ames · 19 Nov 2019 · 426pp · 117,775 words
up OLPC’s software development as vice president of community content (and was reportedly a “close number two” after Negroponte in OLPC’s leadership).1 Mary Lou Jepsen, whom Negroponte recruited to the project when she was interviewing for a faculty position at the Media Lab in early 2005, worked on hardware design
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Charisma Kids that I know, for instance in that picture, sleep with their laptop. I mean, they’re not going to let these break, and Mary Lou Jepsen’s done a heck of a job in making them very repairable, so that 95% of the maintenance is done by the kids, actually. —Nicholas
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
by Byron Reese · 23 Apr 2018 · 294pp · 96,661 words
hear. The rate at which we are learning about the brain is increasing. One amazing example is the work being done by the technology pioneer Mary Lou Jepsen. She has developed a system in which brain scans are taken of people while they are being shown a series of YouTube videos. A computer