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6 Oct 2022, 9:00 am by La redacción
A mediados de la década de los años 90 del siglo pasado, Nicholas Negroponte, visionario de la dicotomía entre bits y átomos, apuntaba que la digitalización actuaría como una fuerza de la naturaleza cuyo curso sólo seguiría avanzando con el transcurso del tiempo. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 10:12 am by Chris Castle
 But he is definitely well-known to the digital elites–which we know because his picture shows up in the 2000 version of the Billionaire’s Dinner rubbing elbows with the cognoscenti including fellow diners Nicholas Negroponte of MIT and MIT patron the late Jeffrey Epstein. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 10:16 am by Chris Castle
 But he is definitely well-known to the digital elites–which we know because his picture shows up in the 2000 version of the Billionaire’s Dinner rubbing elbows with the cognoscenti including fellow diners Nicholas Negroponte of MIT and MIT patron Jeffrey Epstein. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 7:29 am
He had already been on the fence about digital interaction since even before he wrote about Nicholas Negroponte’s 'Being Digital' in 1995 for The New Yorker. 'He was so excited about the prospect of a future in which you wouldn’t get the dull, old New York Times,' Franzen told me. 'You’d get via the web a new service called The Daily Me. [read post]
1 May 2017, 10:26 am by Quinta Jurecic
Nicholas Rasmussen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will provide a keynote address. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 4:18 pm by INFORRM
In 1996, when the web was in its infancy, the American technology writer Nicholas Negroponte predicted that the coming digital revolution would facilitate a “cottage industry of information and entertainment providers”. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 1:14 pm by Paul Rosenzweig
"  Rounding out the top three concerns, Director Negroponte mentioned the then-ongoing Iraq and Afghan wars and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
For a good example, I refer you to the below TED talk given by Nicholas Negroponte, who discusses a very well-written Ph.D. thesis from one of his students at the MIT Media Lab. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 7:58 am by Andres
(via Mathias Klang) I highly recommend this excellent video about filter bubbles: The filter bubble was a phenomenon that was described in its early shape by Cass Sunstein in his seminal Republic.com, where he narrates the rise of the Daily Me, an information filter where people hear only what they want to hear and read only what they want to read (ETA: Seems like Nicholas Negroponte coined the term first). [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 5:28 am by NBlack
The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper…Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 8:43 am by Adam Thierer
The Case for Internet Optimism Part 1 – Saving the Net From Its Detractors (Adam Thierer) ______ Theuthian Technophiles ( “The Internet Optimists”) Thamusian Technophobes ( “The Internet Pessimists”) Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (1995) Kevin Kelly, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (1995) Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies (1998) James Surowiecki,… [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 8:54 am by Adam Thierer
In that book, Sunstein raised deep reservations about what Nicholas Negroponte had first called “The Daily Me” of media customization that the Internet and digital communications allows. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 9:28 pm by BLOG
"This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development minister Kapil Sibal told the Economic Times when he unveiled the device Thursday.In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte - cofounder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab - unveiled a prototype of a $100 laptop for children in the developing world. [read post]
27 May 2010, 8:39 am by rgeorges
Now, Nicholas Negroponte says he is going to try to have a Linux or Android tablet ready for delivery by the end of 2010, and I will be praying for his success. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 7:33 pm by Adam Thierer
Today I am testifying at an FCC hearing on “Serving the Public Interest in the Digital Era. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 1:18 am by Andres
“Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 9:34 am
  Nicholas Negroponte made the much quoted observation almost 15 years ago, before the Internet was the multi-media service that it is today - that communications devices that were wired will become unwired, and those that were wireless would become wired - the "Negroponte Switch" or the process of "unwiring. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 12:49 pm by Ross
Here’s the most recent netbook-chat: Netbooks grew out of the One Laptop Per Child movement (OLPC), started by Nicholas Negroponte from MIT. [read post]