Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
believe
I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.
changing generally glass grant issues move needle people
I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
carry cooler phones weight
Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.
accident car die drive eat energy lives people rest spend text year
Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
picking starts
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
audacious projects pure science
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
believe both sure turn ultimately
We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.
shocked solve though
When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
almost exercise technology
Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
access avoid becoming best goes health people
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
cameras checking might
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
believe benefit car cars drives net people positive safer themselves whether
When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.
lives physical physics says
There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.