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
children firsts natural
When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.
self order organization
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
powerful google advertising
Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
goal laptops selling
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
views juan
Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
research bigs term
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.
kids school boring
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
laptops kind seamless
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
running worst-enemy people
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
ideas laptops selling
I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
running children school
When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.
research computer user-interface
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
understanding cyberspace limits
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
military years wind
Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.