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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."
I'm a subscriber (and I work with Larry at Google), so I have a copy of the 24MB speech already.
I'm sure the site linked above will be slow or dead by the time you read this, so if you want a copy of the speech in mp3 or ogg vorbis (I've transcoded it to ogg, which is premier for audio since it's free and open source unlike mp3), reply to this message with your spam-proof email address and I'll send it out tonight.
Really, I don't do this kind of stuff often, but this speech is good enough to warrant it. It's a must-listen, Slashdotters.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
Funny enough, you blogged a speech by Larry Page it on Blogspot. Of all the blogsites....
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Well- seems he dropped out of Stanford. Seems all the successful CEOs drop out- Gates, Ellsion, and Page. Seems all the people he was preaching to are already doomed to be losers.
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.
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I'll wait a few hours before hitting that link, but man, I wish there were a textual transcript of the same, because that would be easier to analyze, quote, and reference.
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Someone's vision for the future next to the story about the time travellers' convention.
It seems that Mr. Paige has gone on a philonthropic course lately (not that that's a bad thing). At the FIRST robotics competition in Atlanta, he made a 15 minute long speech with some great messages (although I thought his delivery was sub-par). Among them, he pledged money from www.google.org to FIRST. He is very inspiring. Larry, from FIRST to you, thanks. -Daniel
Hmmm .. at least someone shares my interest in Consumption Junction. For those who are wondering what the heck I'm talking about, check out this guy's blog title.
geek_man_2382 writes: "Google is Jesus! I saw it myself! Larry Page came to my house and I was like "sup" and he was like "I'm going to cure world hunger and shizzit" and I was like "sweet dude". And then he walked on water and tore up some loaves and fishes and died and was resurrected and shit. It's that whole "do no evil" thing he has, you know..."
*bangs head on desk at another fucking Google cocksucking story on Slashdot*
Jesus guys, you may as well change it to "Googledot: Google google Googles. Google google googles." Every single day another story about how absolutely marvellous Google is and how they're going to make the whole Internet better and they're doing it all out of the kindness of their hearts. I can honestly say I don't give a flying fuck what Google is doing today, I come here to read tech news and discussion, not a load of geeks droning on about how this one company is going to perform miracles.
PLEASE stop with the Google stories. I beg of you. I swear I see the word "Google" so much now that the word has lost all meaning, it's just a random string of letters. I'll pay you to stop with the fucking Google stories, or at least think of a way so that I can't see them!!! PLEASE!!!!
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Having Google shoehorned into the end of that Silicon Valley Cafeteria post was bad enough.
We get it. Google is teh roxx0r. Move on. Please.
C'mon people, look at the poster's history. It's nothing but a string of -1s.
I couldn't agree with Page more ..
larry page: "I know a lot of you are planning on going to business school, but I don't think you need to go to business schoool"
larry page: "I just read a bookshelf of business books"
From a man worth 7 billion dollars, it sure seems to me like his statement on how to run a business is pretty reputable.
want to write a transcript of the message for us... ...please :)
For those of us unable to listen to auditory files for whatever reason, could someone write up a transcript of some sort?
Many thanks.
~Tirinal
If only the Slashdot editors had written some way of blocking stories some people didn't want to see.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Parent poster has a long history of lying, telling ridiculous stories and otherwise karma whoring. I bet you 100 dollars to 1 donut he doesnt have the file.
Check out, for example, http://slashdot.org/~Amsterdam%20Vallon. Note the 11 "-1 Troll" posts in a row.
If we don't have anyone that can handle mirroring it can we set up a torrent? I don't think gmail will allow > 10 mb files.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
I found it pretty underwhelming. Page is not a great speaker he's a geek. There were several ums and 4-second awkward pauses, unlike the other speeches (by students and others). He fumbled with words at times and it seemed he had barely rehearsed. And the content was nothing fantastic. "Take risks, space flight is cool [cheers from aero majors], my parents met in a coop, how many of you would work for Google if we opened an Ann Arbor office, blah." It was nice, somewhat encouraging but to me, his manner of speaking made the whole thing fall flat. He gave not pearls of wisdom, but offhand comments on fun bits of tech.
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thx!
That would be awesome. It looks like the mp3 copies have already been slashdotted and are unavailable.
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He thinks that he owns it. The truth is that Wall Street has root privaleges already.
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Listen, you heretic, your day of reckoning will come. Don't you know thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of The Google, by The Google, for The Google? Let us be thankful we have Google. Google more. Google more now. Google. And be happy. Remember, you have nowhere to go. Google is here to protect you.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Honest, you can't talk about the future without accounting for America's dismal direction.
Not flaming, honest. Show some balls!
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Its not slashdots fault this time!
Its his fault, ha gave the EXACT SAME SPEECH at the first robotics nationals in georgia
Hey, can someone who's downloaded the file post a torrent of the file for those of us who don't have it yet? - Xierox
Xierox
Google is one of the few market-changing forces in computer tech these days. There's a reason you read a lot about Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, AMD, Intel, etc. on Slashdot. It's because these are the companies that are changing the way other companies do business, and in turn how we all work and play.
Because you didn't include any sort of solution to what you see as an overabundance of stories about Google, I'm curious: What specific types of stories would you like to see?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Police state.
They want their dot-com stupidity back...
He lucked into that stuff, he didn't manage his way there as a business person. At best, he had a great idea. A business degree will not help you come up with a great idea.
Now, on the other hand, all you business school types can go to hell too. This world doesn't need more business-types. It needs more people coming up with ideas with worthy of making a business from. You business types with your quick money ideas created the dot-com disaster, and you'll bring it back again I'm sure.
Running a good business isn't about marketing your stock.
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Please don't link to the file directly. Gracias.
What is humor if not pain tempered by time?
Dropping out of his PH.D? *GASP*! What with only a pathetic Masters, how could he have made it?
Sarcasm aside, his leaving the academic world doesn't supprise me. Given that a PH.D won't expand practical knowledge of Computer Science as a Bachelors and Masters would, I would of done the same thing. He didn't take a chance, he just came to his senses.
This is funny as hell, check Mr. Vallon's posting history, people! You are all going to get signed up for spam or worse!
mp3 and wav files moved to University webspace -- should be able to withstand the /.ing.
cheers.
Seriously, WTF is with all these Me TOO! posts?
MOD PARENT UP, works great. Also, set up a torrent
. mp3.torrent
here (if you're into that stuff):
http://notespace.org/Larry_Page-Graduation_Speech
What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex!
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For those who dont want to see the flash movie, here goes the text: (some content is omitted near the end, so I would recommend to see the flash movie)
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That reminds me exactly how much I hate graduation speeches...
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Credit where credit is due: I got the torrent link from this comment by ploss.
[posting anon. to avoid the karma whore stigma]
Excellent. I shall seed overnight at least.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
Now I can rest in my grave peacefully
What kind of phone has that kind of recording capacity?
I think you just asked for a LOT more than an mp3.
I give Page and Brin kudos for pagerank, but frankly I don't think he knows anything about space travel and even less about solving world hunger, although if he were to start, he could sign over all his shares in GOOG to a feed-the-children charity, which I doubt he will do (talk's cheap, Larry).
Damn, this was not a good speech. it was inspirational in the sense that I could have given a better one!
The whole first half is "I made billions of dollars, it's really pretty easy, in fact all us silicon valley types are just waiting to give it all away... we just can't find enough smart people!"
And a direct quote:
"The best way to change the world is to be in a position of power."
Wow, thanks Larry.
I hope whoever gives the graduation address in June (who the hell graduates in April, BTW?) at UCSC will be a much better speaker.
I know isn't it really annoying how everyone loves google so much, I mean I use it as my search engine but the other stuff i do not really like. Google maps is good but their directions and time for driving is not as good as Yahoo.
Can we find some other great company now?
As Ellison said to grads
yeah i just graduated from EE, heard the speech, and i can honestaly say... you are right. there are slim pickins at michigan. but there is the rare polished stone amongst the coal.
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Probably a different Larry Page but I was friends with a Lawrence Page in something like the 5th grade in Ann Arbor. He would get a ride to school with one of the school administrators and he complained that she was always playing "We Are The World" on the way to school. I don't know how much he cared about the African famine back then but it would be funny if he's now interested in world hunger.
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I was reading the comments like usual, and then they all went off-topic about oil, and may blah blah, email for file crap? Slashdot has hit a new low....
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
These guys knew before they dropped out, they had a chance. They always done, ones that have done this. Given by choice of gift.
This is my first post, but for a supposed 'geek' site I'm surprised how many people were willing to give their email addresses away. And did you all think at all about the readability of the thread when you filled the discussion with free private details? Honestly... BTW this site _does_ suck google's d*ck a lot.
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
I'm not really sure since there is no image, but from the sound it seems as though he is talking to a megaphone in a small indoor swimming pool with prerecorded laughter stolen from a Friends episode. Anyone care to transcribe?
So, the guy said 'email me if you want the file' and left his email address. So....why is everyone and their mother posting their email addy here?
morons.
Peter Drucker
It's "/.++ ", but you can't log in right now, it's being virusscanned and then rebooted. They tout 5 9's availability: .99999% available!
See how rich those poor little shoe-mending lads are in third world countries, they would love to high school in your place. You should be thankful for what you have
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i cried when i read aneutronic fusion is unworkable.
goes to show, no magic bullets.
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Free Manning, jail Obama.
an especially interesting quote from the end of the speech:
there was a lot more, but that was the punchline. google's motto is "do no evil", and their mission is to make all of the information in the world easily accessable. that's pretty cool. they have always wanted to digitize existing libraries of books, but it has taken ten years to convince people it was possible. he also talked about nanotechnology, and encouraged the idea of ending world poverty. google devotes 70 percent of their resources to the search engine, 20 percent to related technologies, and 10 percent to other unrelated projects. current revenues are over one billion dollars per quarter, so they are spending over a million dollars a day on projects completely un-related to search, in a culture the encourages taking risks and having a healthy disregard for the impossible. it boggles the mind what the future may bring forth from google.
regards,
michael.
full transcript is posted here
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148012&cid=12
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I remember using Zaptor?
I believe the program Larry Page was referring to is Zephyr messing service. People could use use zlocate and ytalk to find and talk to their fellow students logged onto the unix mostly Sun and HP workstations in those days at Michigan.
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President of the University of Michigan is Mary Sue Coleman.
Dean director
This confuses many people, so its understandable. The College of Engineering's dean is Steve Director leaving this summer '05. So his name is Director, not director as a position.