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Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte

American Businessman

Born: Dec 1, 1943

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This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. Nicholas Negroponte

Understanding Beginning No Boundaries Boundaries Limits Just Cyberspace

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. Nicholas Negroponte

Good Nature Organization Assumption Draw Hierarchical Systems Pretty Pretty Good Only Networks Come Contrast Order Which Social Basic

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. Nicholas Negroponte

World Water Kids Take Computers Developing Like Parts Fish Even

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. Nicholas Negroponte

Looking Big Research Startups Spend Bubble Term Most Big Companies Sales Than Closer Burst Less Companies Even Suffered Technological

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. Nicholas Negroponte

Goals Walk Our Environment Talk Learned How Real Rewards Interacting

One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal. Nicholas Negroponte

Better Argument Kids Possible Running Windows Could Answer Goal Yes Want Connected Largest Million Here Number Two

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you. Nicholas Negroponte

You Natural Will First State Meet Resource Say Pretty Head Most Quickly Precious Children Natural Resource Then Your Agree

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. Nicholas Negroponte

Learning Computer Part Simulation Equation Doing Same Teaching

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