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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
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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.
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Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.
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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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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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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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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.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
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I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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