Astro Teller (X), Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Christina Smolke (Stanford University School of Medicine) - Forecasting the Future of Technology

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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A special panel of highly scientific minds discusses what the future holds for tech innovation, education and entrepreneurship. Panelists include Google's "captain of moonshots," Astro Teller, Stanford bioengineer Christina Smolke, an associate professor at the university's medical school, and DFJ General Partner Steve Jurvetson. Persis Drell, dean of the Stanford School of Engineering, moderates the discussion, with introductions by Stanford Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.1	We have great great panelist.
0:22.0	Let me introduce them to you.
0:24.0	First of all, Christina Smolke.
0:27.4	She is the associate professor from Stanford School of Medicine.
0:34.3	Her lab is focusing on new molecular biology and genetic tools.
0:39.0	And I'm now going to show my age and put my glasses on, so I don't blow my intro of Christina and others. Computational approaches and the measurement technology, looking at
0:45.4	transforming our ability to study and manipulate biological systems. More to the point, Christina
0:51.2	has won NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
0:57.9	She was also featured in science, which sounds like a really fascinating article,
1:01.7	on genetically engineered yeast and how that relates to medical painkillers.
1:03.6	So she's doing some exciting things.
1:06.5	She's also a CEO of a startup and Thea.
1:08.1	So thanks a lot for coming, Christina.
1:11.1	Next up we have Astro Teller.
1:16.5	He's head of Google's Moonshot Factory, formerly known as Google X, and now called X.
1:22.2	As most of you know, Google X has brought us the self-driving car, Google Glass, and some other exciting, audacious breakthroughs.
1:24.9	He's an engineer and scientist.
1:26.7	He's uniquely qualified to oversee Google's
1:29.2	moonshots. He's grown five companies of his own. He holds numerous patents in hardware and software
1:34.9	technology, five companies, and so forth. So Astro, thanks for coming. Third, we have Steve
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