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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Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding,
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We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.
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A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
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It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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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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Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
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VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.
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When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
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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.
We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.