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
approach radically shoot
Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.
future knowledge piece scientist technology uses
To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary.
We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
mud oil takes
Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
tried
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
future rare technology
Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
car computer house phone solve
It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem.
bodies computing future lives second ways worn
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
essence time
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
build devices goal learn understand
The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.
We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
human
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
awesome death loud power problem
Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.