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TED: Nicholas Negroponte On OLPC

MIT Media Lab founder and “Being Digital” author Nicholas Negroponte stopped by the EG conference last December to give a sort of status update on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project he’s been driving for the past two years. The project’s mandate is to create an inexpensive, durable and well-designed laptop that costs less [...]
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More Brilliantly Halting Prescience…

I was researching something and came across this old interview with Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT (link to her personal site) in support of her 1996 book “Life On The Screen.” Some choice tidbits (Dr. Turkle noted where appropriate, otherwise it’s the author [...]
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