Larry Page's Vision of the Future

adamjh writes "Yesterday, Google co-founder Larry Page gave an amazing talk to the 2005 graduating class of the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In true geek form, I made sure to record Larry's entire speech on my mobile phone in order to share with the Slashdot community a rare glimpse into Larry's thoughts on the past, present, and future -- on topics ranging from dropping out of Stanford to start Google to "Thinking Big" and the abundance of venture capital to traveling to Mars, curing world hunger, and well, much much more."

Comments

Peak oil (again)

[s1234d]

I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but Peak Oil is going to prevent all this amazing sounding stuff in the future. We're going back to the Middle Ages and we need to find the best ways of dealing with that.

ruby on rails

[Anonymous Coward]

is great, much like php, for doing 'hello, world' stuff

using active record is awesome

writing a dated framework (struts) in ruby is truly an earth-shattering achievement

weakly-typed languages are the wave of the future for enterprise development

Re:EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT THE FILE

[FleaPlus]

Indeed. I've had my email on the slashdot front page once or twice, and almost no spam gets through the filter.

Re:EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT THE FILE

[Dolly_Llama]

WTF?

28 Replies and they're all AOL metoo?

If Slashdot were to look down right now, she would see a shark just under her waterskis.

Re:EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT THE FILE

[Johnno74]

HAHAA!!

Normally I hate trolls, but thats the best trollage I've ever seen. Nice one, had me going until I saw your posting history.

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Trollkore
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Re:I was there too (though I've not graduated)

[Anonymous Coward]

A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.

Re:EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT THE FILE

[GileadGreene]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Especially when slashdotters are involved...

Phone?

[klausner]

What kind of phone has that kind of recording capacity?