Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.
Nicholas NegroponteThe notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
Nicholas NegroponteWhen 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.
Nicholas Negroponte