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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We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,
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I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,
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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.
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I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.
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By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.
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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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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.
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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.