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
research bigs term
Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
kids school boring
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
laptops kind seamless
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
running worst-enemy people
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
ideas laptops selling
I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
running children school
When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.
research computer user-interface
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
self years world
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.
understanding cyberspace limits
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
military years wind
Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
real educational ideas
Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.
real technology skills
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
kids water world
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
elements problem bigs
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.