Joichi Ito
Joichi Ito
Joichi "Joi" Itois a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Professor, and Director of the MIT Media Lab...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 June 1966
CountryJapan
anonymous believe costs definitely huge speech
I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.
allowing anyone aware human remember risk
I think it's important to remember that Hitler was human and that we always need to be aware of the risk allowing anyone to have so much power.
aggression convincing extremists supported surrender therefore until won
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
adapting audience changing line words
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
rights law terrorism
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
rights liberty democracy
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
innovation want cost
Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.
break-up government roles
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
broken-heart japan democracy
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
fighting opportunity japan
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
today rest-of-your-life adults
In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.
fighting ideas trying
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
whole-life connected has-beens
My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.
boring broads feels
I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.