architect
best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
's Media Lab
, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).
Negroponte was born to Dimitri John Negroponte, a Greek
shipping magnate, and grew up in New York City
's Upper East Side
. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte
, former United States Deputy Secretary of State
.
He attended Buckley School in New York City, Le Rosey
in Switzerland, and The Choate School
(now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut
, from which he graduated in 1961.
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
The Internet for us was like air. It was there all the time - you wouldn't notice it existed unless it was missing.
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.
I think the Net is scaling very well. Because of the way it was designed, I don't think it will come to its knees and crash. I see it as very organic in the way it's capable of living and reproducing itself.
Cyberlaw is global law.
Unlike television - at least as it currently exists - the Internet is a medium of choice.
If you think about it, being digital is Italian. It's underground, provocative, interactive. It has humor, discourse, and debate. It has a kind of liveliness to it.
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