Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

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

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

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