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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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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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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The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
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In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.
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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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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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unbelievably silly, because terrorists and drug dealers aren't waiting for FedEx to deliver a disk to Libya or Colombia.
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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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I've told the governments that our price will float and go down over time,
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This is not teaching as we know it; only part of our learning comes from teaching. Much of it comes from curiosity. These are tools that can help cultivate that learning process.
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So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it.