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• 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.

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  Research, Bigs, Term

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Top Down, Self, Order

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

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  Business, Real, Moving

  "Taxing Taxes" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. May 01, 1998.

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• The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

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  Laptops, Kind, Seamless

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• Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

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  Running, Worst Enemy, People

  "Interview The Sugar daddy for future generations". Interview With Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

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  Ideas, Laptops, Selling

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

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  Teaching, Peers, Computer

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• MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

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  Academic Freedom, Mit, Academic

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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• If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

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  Fire, Doors, Answers

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• The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

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  Organization, Ideas, People

  "Where do new ideas come from?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.

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• What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

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  Cutting, Differences, Obsolete

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• Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

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  Dream, Thinking, People

  "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.

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• I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

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  Careers, Income, Needs

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

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  Zero, Media, Way

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

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  Thinking, People, Omelets

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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.

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  Children, Firsts, Natural

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• It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

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  Phones, People, Wire

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

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  Morning, Children, School

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

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  Kids, Class, Asking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

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  Children, Green, Littles

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

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  Country, Children, President

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

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  People, Killers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

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  Running, Children, Passion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

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  School, Kids, Boring

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

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  Believe, People, World

  "Pricing the Future". Wired, web.media.mit.edu. November 1998.

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