Larry Page's Vision of the Future 303
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."
Textual transcript, anyone? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Page's Take on Business (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Anyone... (Score:2, Interesting)
I was there too (though I've not graduated) (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:In other news (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Textual transcript, anyone? (Score:2, Interesting)
About 8GB was transferred in about 18 minutes, before it was shut down.
J
DUPE! (Score:2, Interesting)
Its his fault, ha gave the EXACT SAME SPEECH at the first robotics nationals in georgia
The Google and the future from another one (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/ [robinsloan.com]
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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Re:Page's Take on Business (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Peak oil (again) (Score:4, Interesting)
Fission is the only thing that is ready and available to step up, along with a few other things like coal gassification.
Re:Page's Take on Business (Score:2, Interesting)
Every example of a non-MBA at the head of a highly successful tech company either has decades of experience or someone with experience or an MBA working underneath him.
Re:Ohh! What a brazen reckloose! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Peak oil (again) (Score:3, Interesting)
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.