The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Larry Page reads as The Visionary because his ambitions have consistently outpaced conventional industry imagination. Co-founding Google, he pursued not merely a search engine but a foundational theory of organising all human knowledge, rooted in his academic work on link-based authority. Creating Alphabet, he restructured the company to liberate moonshot ambitions, from self-driving vehicles to life-extension research.
“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.”
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“I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.”
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“If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have [a question] answered for you before you ask it.”
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