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
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.
years way online
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
country taken childhood
You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.
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.
views juan
Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
cutting differences obsolete
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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.
powerful google advertising
Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
organization ideas perspective
The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.
doors fire answers
If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?
research computer user-interface
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.