A BEAUTIFUL
MIND
in life get together to schmooze,
booze, sing and pee in the woods,
according to accounts. Thrun says
it isn’t likely. Later, he tells me he
wouldn’t want to go on vacation
without his wife and son.
WINNI WINTERMEYER
The Laws Of Motion
Even as Thrun seeks to get gadgets
out of our way, his v ision suggests an effort to make humans
a bit more like computers: more
rational and less inclined to give
into foolish fears. Thrun sees a
very real and important place for
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technology that advances clarity,
eliminates obfuscation, and gives
people all the help they need to
solve problems on their own.
Thrun approaches problems
armed with facts and cool hard
logic, and seems troubled by people who do otherwise. He has an
impressive number of statistics
at his fingertips: the energy efficiency of planes versus trains, the
fraction of materials shipped to a
construction site that go to waste,
the number of years required to
fly to Mars and the percentage of
Americans who don’t believe in
evolution (a number irksomely
large, in his view). He imagines a
Thrun in
the Google
self-driving
car earlier
this month.