A BEAUTIFUL
MIND
I figured if we could bridge the gap
between cultures with images, that
would not be a bad thing to do.”
Two years ago, Thrun assembled a team of Google X engineers
and tasked them with another assignment, one also rooted in the
future: to reinvent the computer.
The result is Project Glass,
a.k.a. Google Glasses, an endeavor
Thrun makes a point of asking
me to note is now being led by
his colleague Babak Parviz. Thrun
hands me a pair of the “glasses,”
which will be available for $1500
to a limited group of tech industry insiders in early 2013