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
car imagine meant people text
People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
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Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
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Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'
people
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.
great mix
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
digital glass harmonize people physical time
The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
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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.
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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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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.
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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.
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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.