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Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011
O'Reilly
Steve Yegge's OSCON Data 2011 talk imagines what you could do with Google-scale storage and compute a decade later. He argues smart people should work on hard problems such as biology rather than cat pictures, and the talk ends with a moment many took as him quitting Google.
Cited for its critique of talent wasted on social media and for the data-mining-for-biology argument, plus the around-14-minute quitting moment.
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