Nicholas Negroponte

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July 13, 2020

Name: Nicholas Negroponte
Born: 12/01/1943 (77 years old)
Occupation: Academic and computer scientist

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 bestseller Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.

Birth Place: New York City, New York, U.S.

Source: Wikipedia

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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte

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

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
Nicholas Negroponte

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.
Nicholas Negroponte