It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
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 NegroponteMost children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.
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