Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
Nicholas NegroponteThe best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.
Nicholas NegroponteLearning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
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.
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