Nicholas Negroponte foreshadows the future i n this 1984
discussion on what we can expect in the coming decades. His ability
to hit the mark on everything from CD-roms to products like the
iPhone show that we can reasonably predict at least the next score
of human years. Speaking at the first TED
Conference in 1984, Negroponte waxes prophetic on the convergence
of technology, entertainment and design:
Years before anyone was using the word “convergence,” Negroponte
was thinking about TV screens as the “electronic books of the
future” and computers as the future of education. In excerpts from
his 2-hour talk (this was before TED’s
18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed web interfaces, service
kiosks, the touchscreens for mobile devices like the iPhone, and
his own One Laptop per Child project. Oh, and there’s also a
fascinating project called Lip Service, which, well, let’s just say
it’s still ahead of us …
