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
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Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
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It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
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This selected group of organizations has shown their commitment and leadership in closing the digital divide in emerging countries, focusing on providing access to life-altering technology and information to children across the globe.
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unbelievably silly, because terrorists and drug dealers aren't waiting for FedEx to deliver a disk to Libya or Colombia.
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We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
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One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
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It bothers me when people spoil the market.
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Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
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The plan is for the $100 laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data.