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18 Feb 2008, 4:00 pm
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE: Electronics are obese. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 10:53 pm
TED has posted excerpts from a fascinating talk by Nicholas Negroponte from the first TED conference in 1984. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 3:20 pm
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, presents the keynote address at this year's Internet & Society conference, "University - Knowledge Beyond Authority" on May 31. [read post]
18 May 2008, 7:54 am
The One Laptop Per Child iniative, led by computer researcher Nicholas Negroponte, has a proud history of pioneering open source technology with the Linux operating system. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 2:59 am
Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of MIT’s Media Lab program, created a stir when he announced a plan to provide ultra-low-cost laptops for children in Third World countries. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 6:26 am
QuickTime Video Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, presents the keynote address at this year’s Internet & Society conference, “University - Knowledge Beyond Authority” on May 31. [read post]
4 Dec 2006, 6:30 am
Nicholas Negroponte's plan to equip children in the the third world with cheap laptops is back in the news. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 11:08 am
BBC News has a piece, Factfile: XO laptop, on the current form of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) machine being developed by Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 3:09 am
Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an article about MIT's Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative. [read post]
27 May 2010, 8:39 am
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]
2 Dec 2007, 2:00 am
Sys-con reports: Among its other problems - like failing to get orders from third-world governments, competing against Intel and Microsoft, and the seeing the price of its Holy Grail rise from $100 to $200 - One Laptop Per Child and its do-gooder-in-chief Nicholas Negroponte are now being sued for patent infringement in Nigeria on a Nigerian patent (RD8489) by a US-based Nigerian-owned outfit called Lagos Analysis Corporation.The article ends: So, failing Nigeria, the first… [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 12:47 pm
By 1996, Nicholas Negroponte wrote what many others also foresaw: “Shipping bits will be a crummy business. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 9:00 am
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]
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]
7 Feb 2017, 4:18 pm
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]
7 Aug 2011, 7:58 am
(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]
29 Apr 2008, 4:09 pm
They are: Susan Phillips, Tom Bray, Louis Boccardi, Jack Fuller and Nicholas Negroponte They are apparently shameless. [read post]
21 May 2008, 9:21 am
Do these folks — Susan Phillips, dean of the business school at George Washington University; Tom Bray, former editorial page editor of the Detroit News; Louis Boccardi, who ran the Associated Press; Jack Fuller, former editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune; Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT computer guru — realize how their service in this role corrodes their reputations and legacies? [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 7:20 am
Consider Nicholas Negroponte, a computer scientist at MIT, who has established a charitable organization to help poor children in the developing world. [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 12:23 pm
Take a moment and think about how much you use your computer and the power it gives you to work, learn, think, communicate and so on . . .The computer and concept of getting compters in the hands of children around the world is the brainchild of Professor Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. [read post]
