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Astro Teller, Google

Astro Teller, "captain of moonshots" at the X, formerly Google X, research lab in Mountain View, Calif. Projects at the Alphabet-owned division have included efforts to change seawater into fuel and make jet packs.

Credit: Jason Henry for The New York Times

Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.

From The New York Times
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