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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We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
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I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
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Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.
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Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.
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It might fundamentally alter the way we use our highways and save trillions of dollars.
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I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
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I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.
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You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
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Extrapolate two, three or four years out, and then let your imagination play.
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We have done the impossible. People said: 'Give up it's not possible', but we did it.
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None of us think about a world where all the cars are automated all the time. It could take society 20 years to adopt the technology.
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Last year's teams failed almost exclusively because of software problems,
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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.