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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."
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.
Well damn... I gues it is time to invest in that oxen farm......
Hello helpful person!
Could you please email 2 copies to me - one is for my cousin.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
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
MP3 direct dowload here
I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but while Peak Oil is likely to happen, it will NOT prevent the stuff he is talking about, it will delay it.
Middle Ages are a thing of the past. You need to get rid of ALL SCIENCE, of all technical achievements, of all cultural changes, reinstall the church as the supreme power....
While it is wise to take Peak Oil seriously, doomsaying won't help anyone. Oh yes, a crisis is likely, it will result in drastic cuts in energy until alternative energy sources are fully installed. When fusion power becomes feasible, we're back on track again.
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Heh, I have a GMail account too...doesn't mean I worship everything Google does though, as Slashdot seems to do now. It seriously is becoming a site for Google and Apple fanboys, and very little else. The only reason I'm still here is because I'm thoroughly addicted to this place :)
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And of course, Taco/Timothy/Neal etc don't listen to what the users of Slashdot actually want...I'm fairly sure daily Google updates is fairly low on most peoples' list of priorities
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
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 :)
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.
No. You can't. If you look in your user prefs, you'll notice that that option has miraculously disappeared. you can now only block by section.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Thank you for your kind comments regarding my post. Would you care to elaborate as to what was wrong with it?
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Its not slashdots fault this time!
Its his fault, ha gave the EXACT SAME SPEECH at the first robotics nationals in georgia
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?
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I LOVE LARRY!!!! ^o^ XD
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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.
mp3 and wav files moved to University webspace -- should be able to withstand the /.ing.
cheers.
The IEA has recently shifted its peak forecast date from 2035, to a vague 2015-2024. This is particularly significant, as the IEA's forecasts have traditionally been rather optimistic. There are a number of geologists that are suggesting we have hit global peak production now, or that we will in the very near future i.e. 2005-2007. If that is the case, we do not have enough time to replace our existing energy infrastructure. We also currently do not have a source of liquid fuel with the ERoEI of petroleum. Rather than being complacent in the hopes that future technologies will replace oil, we should be doing everything possible to reduce our consumption.
We will not be regressing to medieval civilisation, but life as we all know it will change irrevocably.
Get ready for some interesting times.
Torrent set up here: http://notespace.org/Larry_Page-Graduation_Speech. mp3.torrent
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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Peak oil will happen, but fusion isn't going to help us. We're generations away from commercial fusion power.
Fission is the only thing that is ready and available to step up, along with a few other things like coal gassification.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
Once oil goes over something like $100.00/barrel it becomes cost efficient to refine shale oil, which we have loads and loads of. Not to mention geological surveys that point to the Gulf of Mexico having more oil than the Saudis ever could dream of. It costs more to get at this oil, but as the cost/barrel rises, it become efficient to drill this and refine it. So in this regard, America is in fact in a great future position in regards to oil as a primary source of power. However, I would agree we should reduce our consumption if possible and seek other methods for generating power. Oil rising to a high price is probably the natural way to make people consume less.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
It seriously is becoming a site for Google and Apple fanboys
I'm tired of it too -- where's the site for fans of MSN and Emachines?
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
The first form of viable power-generating fussion will most likely be not-so-portable. And you might need oil for a number of other reasons, like plastics and medicine, not to mention tens of thousands of other chemicals which you can'yt produce without oil.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Oil at $100 a barrel doesn't just mean that filling up your car is more expensive. Everything depends on oil, including growing and transporting your food.
The whole capitalist system is mostly a pyramid scheme that depends on growth. Expensive everything means less growth, more unemployment and potentially a nasty negative spiral when debt repaiments are not met, at the level of a whole country.
It can be very nasty. We will not run out of oil or out of oil replacements, this is not the problem.
Yeah pretty much, otherwise it's just PR. Being rich doesn't make you a better person, just a richer person. I'm not a religious person, but I remember this story in the bible of this rich man donating money to a church, and pouring a load of money into the pot, although it was a mere fraction of his wealth. Then this poor woman came and put in a single coin, but it was the only coin she had, so apparently it was more charitable.
Exactly. It has less to do with *how much* you give, and more to do with how much you *give up*. It is less to do with the amount, and more to do with the feeling and meaning behind it. Following that parable in the Bible, the woman gave all she had, 100%, and didn't feel any less for it. The man on the other hand gave only a fraction of his sum total (his being), and did so with the sole intention of *looking* good, but not out of the mindset of *doing* good. It is one of those questions of intent, that have nothing to do with the act in and of itself, but rather the intent and reasoning, if any, behind the act. True charity is both a philisophical and a spiritual thing, and is a rarity on this world. I see more true charity among people who give their skills, their livelihood, and their very existence to the things they love for the benefit of all than somebody who would give up a large fraction of their massive wealth to some foundation with their name all over it. Think of it this way, if you were to be truly charitable, would you throw money at something big and grand with your name plasted on it, or make an anonymous donation of monetary or temporal value to some organization with a dire need and a good goal? In this example, Bill Gates is all well and good to throw money at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but he is doing it more in the spirit of good PR than anything else. He makes more money off people believing that he gives a rat's ass about the rest of the planet than he would off squirreling everything away. On the other hand, some random person who takes the time out of their life to use the skills they worked very hard to earn to benefit everybody, such as in the case of an open source project, and expects little to no credit in return. Well, that is truly charitable. This is also a part of the reason that OSS takes off like it does. People feel a deep connection to those in the OSS community, because as they give of themselves, they establish bonds with all of those who use that labor of love they worked on. On the other hand, when you are dealing with a huge corporation and it's leader who throws money at some foundation with a grand name and an opaque surface where the true purpose isn't known, well the feelings are completely different.
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