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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It might not be long before we have jackets that can recharge cell phones and you can be sure that is a jacket I'm going to wear more often. In an aging society, it would be remarkable and wonderful if people could buy pants that walk for them. Is the technology there to make walking pants? The answer is yes. There could be shoes that teach you how to dance or perhaps they do the dancing for you, you wear them and suddenly you are a good dancer.
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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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Good education has got to be good entertainment.
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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.