Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrunis an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 May 1967
CountryGermany
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Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.
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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
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I honestly believe that the impact of this and other things related to self-driving cars could turn out to be more fundamental to mankind than the invention of the internet,
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I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.
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The potential here is enormous. Autonomous vehicles will be as important as the Internet.
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It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
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That was a turning point in the race.
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The problem with cars now is that they spend the vast majority of their time parked in the wrong location so they cannot be used by other drivers,
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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
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Everyone has to place a bet down on speed.
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Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
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The military are interested in more potent weapons, and by itself that's a bad answer.
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It won't be a very fast drive going from San Francisco to Los Angeles ? it might just drive 55 mph, it won't go 90 like everybody else does in California.