Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponteis a Greek American architect. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
ships atoms bits
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
vision peripheral-vision
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
dream children crazy
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.
entertainment good-education be-good
Good education has got to be good entertainment.
machines able
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
academic-freedom mit academic
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
differences yesterday atoms
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.
teacher teaching wheels
While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
law islands cyberspace
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.
business worst-enemy innovation
Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.
research computer user-interface
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
strategy scales
Scale will get you strategy.
understanding cyberspace limits
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
teaching peers computer
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.