Tech Pulse 12/1/25

This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate one article spanning brain-computer interface technology.A retired French schoolteacher who lost the ability to read due to macular degeneration can now read again — thanks to a two-millimeter chip implanted directly on her retina. Her story opens a sweeping look at the race to merge computers with the human brain, and what that technology could eventually mean far beyond vision loss.The piece surveys the companies, the chips, and the patients at the center of this field — from a quadriplegic man controlling a computer cursor with his thoughts, to a locked-in ALS patient speaking to his three-year-old daughter for the first time. The science is moving fast, the hardware is still rough, and the questions it raises are ones humanity has never had to answer before.Aftersight is a media organization that serves individuals with barriers to print. This podcast is produced by Aftersight under the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act which states that authorized nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to provide copyrighted works in specialized formats to individuals with barriers to print are exempt. By continuing to listen, you verify you are blind, have low vision, or barriers to reading print materials.