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
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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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Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
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Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
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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?'
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Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.
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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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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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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.
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We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.
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We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.
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Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'