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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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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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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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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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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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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.
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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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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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Scale will get you strategy.
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Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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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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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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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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