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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Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.
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We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.
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I've told the governments that our price will float and go down over time,
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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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This is not teaching as we know it; only part of our learning comes from teaching. Much of it comes from curiosity. These are tools that can help cultivate that learning process.
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It is going to happen, and if it comes out at $138 so what? If it comes out six months late so what? I tell people I used to be a light bulb and now I'm a laser.
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The idea is that it fulfils many roles. It is the whole theory that learning is seamless,
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Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away.
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I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse,
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Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.
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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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The initial plan is to start with countries that are big and very different to each other,
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A colleague of mine said it made him think twice about kissing his wife goodbye in the morning,
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We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,