Joichi Ito
Joichi Ito
Joichi "Joi" Itois a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Professor, and Director of the MIT Media Lab...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 June 1966
CountryJapan
believe japan korea
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
people
Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.
google important target
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
boring broads feels
I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
power-relationships
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
fighting ideas trying
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
school important type
The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.
believe ideas rights
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
risk cost failing
The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
thinking should futurist
I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'
today rest-of-your-life adults
In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.
school independent college
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.
mountain needs pencils
You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.
believe media marketing
I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.