????最近，格斯?亨特辭去了美國中央情報局（Central Intelligence Agency）首席技術官的職務，開始在舊金山風險投資公司Artis Ventures擔任顧問。

????亨特在美國中情局工作了28年，他把讓政府跟上席卷硅谷的技術創新速度作為自己的使命。他注意到，從創意提出到政府執行的周期過長，所以，為了幫助自己的組織保持對相關領域的了解，亨特會與風險投資人聯系，聽取他們對于新興技術的見解。正是在這個時期，他在CIA看到了大數據分析和云存儲的潛力，于是他建立了一個高度安全的政府云，幫助員工更快地轉移信息。

????亨特加入CIA之前曾在羅克韋爾國際公司（Rockwell International）擔任航空工程師，負責建造航空飛機。他擁有范德堡大學（Vanderbilt University）的土木工程碩士學位。58歲的亨特向《財富》雜志（Fortune）講述了他對未來科技的看法，從職業中學到的經驗教訓，以及自己空閑時間的活動。

????1. 你最贊賞哪一位科技界人物？為什么？

????亞馬遜（Amazon）的杰夫?貝佐斯。我喜歡他，是因為他總是專注于創新，致力于進行前瞻性投資。他徹底顛覆了零售行業，而許多人曾經認為這是不可能完成的任務。他們正在非常高效地利用規模經營。而就其核心而言，亞馬遜的基因就是如何在薄利多銷的同時，在市場中取得成功。

????大家不妨看看在這個過程中誕生的亞馬遜網絡服務（AWS，Amazon Web Services）。憑借這完美的一擊，亞馬遜成功殺入云計算領域。如何在以低利潤賣出這么多計算能力的同時，依然能夠取得成功并從中獲利？亞馬遜人很清楚如何做到這一點，因為他們擁有豐富的零售經驗。

????我贊賞貝佐斯的另外一個原因在于，當華爾街和其他人急切追求利潤而不是對未來進行再投資的時候，他有勇氣堅持己見。收購《華盛頓郵報》（Washington Post）之后，他必將在媒體行業的變革中扮演重要的角色。

????2. 你贊賞哪家公司？為什么？

????基因測定服務公司23andMe。我尊敬她（安妮?沃西基）。因為她的努力，人們現在可以獲得和了解自己的基因構成。美國食品和藥品管理局（FDA）針對我訪問自己基因檔案的權利所做的裁定讓我非常失望。我很不理解。我堅信，基因組的使用是好事，而是否要知道和獲得自己的基因結構，應該由每個人自己決定。我認為，這家公司做了許多努力來推動這方面的進展。

????另外，我認為谷歌公司（Google）也是一家了不起的公司，這一點無需贅言。我可以隨時通過它找到海量信息。讀大學的時候，所有信息都被藏在圖書館里，那時候還沒有從亞馬遜買書這回事。谷歌實現了信息平等，還找到了新的參與機制。僅憑這兩點，我認為他們就值得稱贊。

????3. 對希望從事你這一行的人，你有什么建議？

????讀書，學習，成為一名持續學習者。否則，你會徹底錯過這個世界的精彩。必須始終關注周圍發生的事情。要培養好奇心和學習的欲望。要走出自己的舒適區，勇于承擔困難的工作。只有這樣才能不斷成長。你或許并不知道如何才能做好某些事情，但也要有敢于涉足的勇氣。它會讓你有機會去創造自己的空間，而不是沿襲別人的老路。

????Gus Hunt -- who, as of February, has taken on an advisory role at the San Francisco-based venture capital firm Artis Ventures -- recently retired from his position as the chief technology officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

????In the 28 years that he spent at the CIA, Hunt made it his mission to bring the government up to speed on technological innovations that were sweeping across Silicon Valley. He noticed that the cycle from idea to implementation for the government took too long -- so to help his organization stay relevant, HuntIA would make connections with venture capitalists who could give him early insight on up-and-coming technologies. It was during this time that he saw the potential for big data analysis and cloud storage in the CIA, so he went to work on building a highly secure government cloud that helped employees transfer information quicker.

????Before he joined the CIA, Hunt was an aerospace engineer for Rockwell International where he built space shuttles. He holds a master's degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University. Hunt, 58, spoke with Fortune about what he sees for the future of technology, what he's learned throughout his career, and what he does in his free time.

????1. Who in technology do you admire most? Why?

????Jeff Bezos of Amazon. I love his intense focus on always trying to innovate and his commitment to forward-thinking investment. He's completely reinvented the retail space, and a lot people wondered if that was even possible. They're so effective leveraging scale. At its core, Amazon's DNA is all about how to be successful in markets where you sell lots of goods at really thin margins.

????If you look at the invention of AWS [Amazon Web Services] that came out of that, that's a perfect play for them into the cloud world. How do you sell a lot of computing capacity at really thin margins and still be successful and make money on it? They knew exactly how to do it, based on their retail experience.

????Another thing that I really respect him for is the courage to push back on Wall Street and others when they've tried to force a push for profits instead of reinvesting to build in the future. And with the acquisition of the Washington Post, he will also be an important part of reinventing the media space.

????2. Which companies do you admire? Why?

????23andMe. I respect her [Anne Wojcicki's] drive to allow people to have access to and understand their genetic make-up. I was very disappointed with the FDA ruling regarding my right to access my personal genetic profile. I just couldn't understand that. I'm a firm believer that use of the genome is a good thing, and that the decision to know about it and have access to it should be up to the individual. I thought they had done an enormous amount of good to try to get that moving forward.

????It also goes without saying but I think Google is a terrific company. I have so much information at my fingertips. When I was in college, everything was locked away in a library, and books delivered from Amazon didn't exist. To make information egalitarian and find new mechanisms of engagement, I think they deserve a lot of credit.

????3. What advice would you give to someone who wants to do what you do?

????Read, study, and be a continuous learner. If you're not, I think this world is going to pass you by in a big way. You have to constantly pay attention to what's going on. You have to foster a desire to be curious and to learn. You have to take and do hard jobs that are outside of your comfort zone. That's how growth occurs. Have the courage to step into something that you may not know how to do really well. It allows you the opportunity to invent that space as opposed to inheriting a space.