Talk:Nicholas Negroponte

message: This article needs to be cleaned up and vastly improved in my honest opinion.
First of all Negroponte is extremely important as with regards to MIT medialab, his contributions to Wired Magazine, OLPC, and many other technology-related issues.
It could also do well with an expansion, perhaps even a rewrite?
At least I feel it has to be large enough to warrant a proper Table of Content...
the--dud 19:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagged for Clean-up

message: He's not that highly regarded in the computer science community.  The MIT Media lab has a reputation for generating superficial demos and not delivering on actual new inventions of any importance.  They guy has poured huge resources into trying to make himself into a famous icon of the computer age, without having actually done that much.
: Now that I would have to contend! Have a look a this youtube video of him speaking in 1984, where he demonstrates his idea for a "digital encyclopedia" where a user can read a top level explanation/passage/instruction, or click highlighted words, phrases or concepts to new "pages" in this "digital book" for greater depths of explanation. Sound familiar!? (hint: you're on one now) Seems like calling this an important concept we can all agree on ;)--Ptanham (talk) 10:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: The article states that Being Digital is outdated. This is not backed up by a reference or an argument. The same paragraph also does not reference any critical review of the book when it states that it was critized as "techno-utopian". The whole paragraph:
"Negroponte expanded many of the idea from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital (1995), which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world, and the information world eventually merge. Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some twenty languages. However, critics faulted his techno-utopian ideas for failing to consider the historical, political, and cultural realities with which new technologies should be viewed. In the years following the dot-com bust, the book began to be seen as outdated."
Maybe is was seen as outdated in 2003, but my feel is that right now "his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world, and the information world eventually merge" is seen very much spot on. Furthermore, the article on the book itself does not agree with the outdated claim. Without references I consider the claim to be Orginal Reseach and POV. I'll hold off removing it for few days to see if somebody will be able to back up the claim. Flambergius 14:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the line "In the years following the dot-com bust, the book began to be seen as outdated." for reasons stated above. Flambergius 13:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Being Digital outdated? 

message: Am I crazy for being horrified by the idea of MIT professors deciding that students in third world countries need $100 laptops? I'm starting to think so, considering that everyone else is certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that getting every libyan schoolchild on myspace and AOL is a great idea. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.125.233.221 (talk • contribs).
: Bibles and Laptops, our answers to 3rd world poverty.  How pathetic and self serving they both are. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DonPMitchell (talk • contribs) 22:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homogenous Global Culture 

message: I am replacing a 14 year old publicity photo with a photo taken from a speech in 2009. Dmrcambridge (talk) 20:59, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  photo replacement? 

message: I just cleaned out the external links from this article as none of them complied with our guidelines for external links.  There were quite a few reliable sources in there which can be used for article building so I've listed them here if any editor is interested in citing them as references for material in the article. 
* Zdnet Article about OLPC Controversy
*  Negroponte`s Interview talking about OLPC project and Intel 11/23/2006 in Argentina (English and Spanish audio)
*60 Minutes interview with Negroponte
*Wired interview with Negroponte
*Negroponte talks about One Laptop Per Child
*Video of Negroponte talking at MIT Technology conference about One Laptop Per Child
*Association for Computing Machinery Video Interview with Nicholas Negroponte
*Speaking at Pop!Tech 2005, on ITConversations.com
*Nicholas Negroponte's 18 min Talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA
*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte Silicon Valley Radio.
*"Can the $100 Laptop Change the World?" - Nicholas Negroponte speaks freely on the ambitious One Laptop Per Child Project., LAPTOP, April 29, 2007
:ThemFromSpace 21:31, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: For starters the olpc project which for many was seen nothing more than a failed self aggrandising debacle? There's tons of criticism on the olpc page, why not on this guys page too? Apparently instead of olpc spreading knowledge it has spread porn to the third world, what a brilliant vision... but of course once you violate the third world as much as the U.S. with types like negreponte has, you then try to save and educate them....but trust wikipedia to expurgate...
85.73.85.33 (talk) 03:53, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the criticism section? 

message: Negroponte married at 4 july 2012 in Patmos Island  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.129.223.207 (talk) 13:57, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Married 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The content from https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614264/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-nicholas-negroponte-funding-sex-abuse/ should probably be integrated into this article somehow. C. Scott Ananian (talk) 07:09, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship with Jeffery Epstein 

message: Having a degree in architecture does not make one an architect. Is there any record of this guy having actually practiced architecture? If not, this characterization should be removed. Walkersam (talk) 17:21, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Architect'?