Talk:Nicholas Negroponte
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[edit] Tagged for Clean-up
This article needs to be cleaned up and vastly improved in my honest opinion. First of all Negroponte is extremely important as with regards to MIT medialab, his contributions to Wired Magazine, OLPC, and many other technology-related issues. It could also do well with an expansion, perhaps even a rewrite? At least I feel it has to be large enough to warrant a proper Table of Content... the--dud 19:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Misc
It's strange that there's no discussion about someone so important.
I find it so amazing that his brother is the Director of National Intelligence. What an amazing pair of brothers.
[edit] Criticism
He's not that highly regarded in the computer science community. The MIT Media lab has a reputation for generating superficial demos and not delivering on actual new inventions of any importance. They guy has poured huge resources into trying to make himself into a famous icon of the computer age, without having actually done that much.
[edit] Being Digital outdated?
The article states that Being Digital is outdated. This is not backed up by a reference or an argument. The same paragraph also does not reference any critical review of the book when it states that it was critized as "techno-utopian". The whole paragraph:
"Negroponte expanded many of the idea from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital (1995), which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world, and the information world eventually merge. Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some twenty languages. However, critics faulted his techno-utopian ideas for failing to consider the historical, political, and cultural realities with which new technologies should be viewed. In the years following the dot-com bust, the book began to be seen as outdated."
Maybe is was seen as outdated in 2003, but my feel is that right now "his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world, and the information world eventually merge" is seen very much spot on. Furthermore, the article on the book itself does not agree with the outdated claim. Without references I consider the claim to be Orginal Reseach and POV. I'll hold off removing it for few days to see if somebody will be able to back up the claim. Flambergius 14:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Removed the line "In the years following the dot-com bust, the book began to be seen as outdated." for reasons stated above. Flambergius 13:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Homogenous Global Culture
Am I crazy for being horrified by the idea of MIT professors deciding that students in third world countries need $100 laptops? I'm starting to think so, considering that everyone else is certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that getting every libyan schoolchild on myspace and AOL is a great idea. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.125.233.221 (talk • contribs) 01:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
- Bibles and Laptops, our answers to 3rd world poverty. How pathetic and self serving they both are. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DonPMitchell (talk • contribs) 22:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC).
