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
cutting differences obsolete
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
years design personality
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.
kids class want
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
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.
car electronics cost
The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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.
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.
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?
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.
kids breathing air
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
academic-freedom mit academic
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
vision peripheral-vision
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
issues world laptops
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
worry want today
I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.