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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Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one's studies. Maine's program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.
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Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.
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My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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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.
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It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
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People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems. Suddenly it's like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.
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We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,
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When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right.
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When we talk about an Internet of things, it's not just putting RFID tags on some dumb thing so we smart people know where that dumb thing is. It's about embedding intelligence so things become smarter and do more than they were proposed to do.
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We have been asked directly about this, ... Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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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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Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.