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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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
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Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
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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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Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
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There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
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I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
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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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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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The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.
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The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.
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The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.
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The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.