When 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.
Nicholas NegroponteTo compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
Nicholas NegroponteBig companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
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