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
ideas common bigs
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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.
trying sometimes clicks
I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.
teaching peers computer
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
goal laptops selling
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
powerful wikipedia notion
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
kids breathing air
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
ideas laptops selling
I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
laptops kind seamless
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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 water world
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
zero media television
When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.
phones people wire
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.