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
build justifies kids passion
If you get those kind of results, I'm going to build the machines. There's enough passion and enough kids that are able to do things they were not able to do before that justifies it.
education including problem single solved
Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,
trillion year
I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,
bigger change depending faster
And what's really frightening, or interesting, depending on your perspective, is that the change from now will even be faster and bigger than we're expecting.
breath hard kids laptop propose
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
move
This is the right move at the right time,
billion internet users year
We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,
both intel microsoft
When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right.
learning technology computer-literacy
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
technology computer-literacy should
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
economic-models television advertising
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
pride thinking agreement
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.
digital transmission dependence
Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.
order people machines
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.