Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.
You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.