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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I am always asked in my travels through the developing world: 'If this is such a good idea, why isn't America doing it?' ... Well, now they are.
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We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
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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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Children are the greatest natural resource of any country, and educating these children is at the root of solving our largest and most complex problems. Yet the best education may not come from sitting in a traditional classroom, but rather through independent interaction and exploration. The development of a $100 laptop will now make this possible for all kids -- especially those in developing nations.
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I've told the governments that our price will float and go down over time,
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And what's really frightening, or interesting, depending on your perspective, is that the change from now will even be faster and bigger than we're expecting.
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Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,
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You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France,
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We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,
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Most people don't realize that common sense is the real thing computers are missing,
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The plan is for the $100 laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data.
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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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unbelievably silly, because terrorists and drug dealers aren't waiting for FedEx to deliver a disk to Libya or Colombia.
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When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right.