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
focus google world
Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World
humanity way problem
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
technology google way
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
shocked solve though
When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
people unless worn
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.
batteries constantly density enable great increase ten volume
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.
commands computer glass information responds
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
glasses ourselves pair rather trying understanding
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?'
tried
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
bothers children four society though trains
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.
bitten constantly paranoid
If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.
avid compulsive life nurtured secret spending
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
contest people
If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
millions points
Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.