Google X — the company's top-secret research and design lab — will never immediately reject an idea, Google's "Captain of Moonshots" said yesterday at an emerging technology conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"When someone says why didn't we think about space elevators, it took days for us to discard it," said Astro Teller, head of Google X since 2010. "This is Google's DNA."
Speaking at the EmTech MIT conference hosted by MIT Technology Review at the MIT Media Lab yesterday, Teller said Google X projects have to be things that can provide significant value for society. The key, he said, is to raise expectations.
"When you unleash people's ability to be creative ... you often find solutions to that problem that are easier."
Google X is behind Google Glass, and is working on self-driving cars, smart contact lenses for people with diabetes and Project Wing, which is testing drone deliveries in Australia. He also said the balloons used in Project Loon, Google X's effort to encircle the globe with balloons that provide wireless Internet access, have traveled as far as the distance to the moon and back three times, and more will be up in the next year.
"We should have a semi-permanent ring of balloons in the southern hemisphere so we can do significant testing," he said.
The project is designed to provide reliable Internet access to the 5 billion people who do not have it now.
"Find something that would make the world a radically better place," Teller said. "If you make a lot of value (for consumers), the money will come back and find us in a fair and relevant way."
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