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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."
Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, from 1984
With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project.
Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.
Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.
Nicholas Negroponte | TED Speaker
The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor. He's the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, building computers for children in the developing world.
Tech visionary
Playlist: The history of the future (6 talks)
A look back on how we looked forward over the decades.
Curated by TED · 6 talks
Playlist: What does the future look like? (11 talks)
Visions of the future of everything from cars to the Internet to the human species.
Curated by TED · 11 talks
Playlist: 30 years of TED (16 talks)
The first TED was held in 1984. What kind of predictions did people make 30 years ago? (And did they turn out to be right?) Watch the world change over three decades in this nearly year-by-year playlist.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
Back to tech's future: Nicholas Negroponte at TED2014
Today, Negroponte is back to open TED, to reflect on predictions he's made in the past and to spin some new ones for the future. His point is that when someone tells you that you are "dead wrong," that you just might be onto something.
Negroponte takes us on a lightning-paced tour of his career, beginning in the 1960s when he worked on comp...
Posted March 17, 2014
From 1984 to 2016: TED Talks about interfaces to our technology
Over the past 10 years, TED Talks videos have tracked our ever-tighter relationship with technology -- including the tools we use to access it, our interfaces ... from keyboards and mice to magic wands and sensory vests. For our guide to this evolving field, we start with MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte’s talk from the very first TED, ...
Posted June 28, 2016
New playlist: What does the future look like?
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, a new playlist is available: What does the future look like?
It's the question none of us is sure how to answer: What will the world look like in 20 years? And in a hundred years, will our lives be reco...
Posted March 10, 2013
Video: Predictions from TED Talks, 1984-2014
Predictions are a mug's game. If they come true, you likely didn't push your thinking hard enough. If they don't come true, you risk looking like an idiot. Nonetheless, many speakers at the TED conference have taken the plunge and proffered thoughts of what the future might look like. The video above takes a quick spin through just some ...
Posted March 24, 2014
Liftoff! Speakers in Session 1 at TED2014
This session is for those with a pioneering spirit: where two roads diverge in the woods … these visionaries decided to fly instead. As we fire up the engines of TED2014, our 30th-anniversary conference, expect the kind of forward-thinking ideas that turn one small step for a man into a giant leap for mankind. Watch the opening video.
The spe...
Posted March 17, 2014
TED Radio Hour takes a look in the crystal ball
Take a trip back to the future with this week's TED Radio Hour, as six TED speakers share their prophecies for what lies ahead. From curing cancer to self-driving cars, these TEDsters offer exciting visions for the future, but not without cautionary warnings.
The episode starts with a walk down memory lane with Nicholas Negroponte, who made s...
Posted September 13, 2013
All 50 TED Talks shown for a split-second on 60 Minutes
In 2015, 60 Minutes aired a story called "When TED talks, people listen," to show what happens when TED Talks are shared across the world. The segment focuses on a few key speakers, including Bryan Stevenson, Maysoon Zayid, Amy Cuddy and Monica Lewinsky, and you can watch a playlist of highlighted TED Talks here. But many of you said: You wa...
Posted April 20, 2015
Shallot-like humor website takes on TED
We're not sure anyone could be more excited than us for the launch of Onion Talks, the new weekly video series from The Onion. Forget imitation -- parody is the highest form of flattery. We feel honored to be worthy of satire from the masters of the craft. And we're just hoping that Area Man is the next to give a talk.
With the launch of i...
Posted October 17, 2012
A look at TED, from 1984 through the present
The first TED was held in 1984, the year George Orwell imagined in his classic novel. The second was held in 1990. In 2006, TED Talks were offered online for the first time, free to anyone across the world who wanted to watch. In 2009, TED moved to its current home in Long Beach, California.
As we prepare for TED2013 -- the anticipation of th...
Posted February 22, 2013
Well La Di Da (Di): Mark Ronson at TED2014
At the end of Session 1: Liftoff! at TED2014, DJ and producer Mark Ronson drops the TED Talk intro into a million tiny little pieces. Hair slicked to one side, Ronson mutters self-disparagingly about following Nicholas Negroponte, Chris Hadfield and Ziauddin Yousafzai: "Now I know what it feels like to follow Led Zeppelin, the Stones and the Bea...
Posted March 17, 2014
New TED Book asks: can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?
Ten years ago, educator Sugata Mitra and his colleagues cracked open a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed a networked PC, and left it there for the local children to freely explore. What they quickly saw in their ‘Hole in the Wall’ experiment was that kids from one of the most desperately poor areas of the world c...
Posted January 24, 2012
In case you missed it: Day 1 of TED2014
“The Next Chapter” is already fascinating -- full of great characters, plot twists and, hopefully, it's all leading toward a happy ending. Today, we kicked off TED2014 -- our 30th-anniversary conference -- which will chew on this theme, offering intriguing ideas on where we are going next. So what happened in day one? Below, some highlights.
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Posted March 17, 2014
Happy 30th birthday, Macintosh!
Thirty years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh 128k at an Apple shareholders’ meeting. Excitement was high after the airing of the now-classic commercial “1984” during the Super Bowl two days before, and the demo -- complete with the “Chariots of Fire” theme song -- lived up to the hype.
The unveiling was the backdrop for another...
Posted January 24, 2014
Who will talk at TED2014? The speaker lineup, revealed!
TED2014 is our 30th-anniversary conference, and the speaker lineup is -- in a word -- thrilling. Speakers will touch on topics ranging from technology, entertainment, design and education to climate change, architecture, music, physics, parenting, typography, fireflies and the Golden Gate Bridge. Randall Munroe of xkcd will talk about his passio...
Posted January 30, 2014
Books to get you ready for TED2014
TED2014, our 30th anniversary conference, is less than a month away! If you’re counting the days like we are, get a head start by reading some of the insightful and compelling books by the groundbreaking thinkers who will speak in Vancouver.
Books from speakers in Session 1, “Liftoff”
Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte. This 1995 bests...
Posted February 22, 2014
10 talks on predicting the future
We’re just a week into 2013, and the year seems filled with possibility. The turn of the New Year is generally an occasion to look back and reflect on the year that's passed -- the victories and defeats, the lives lost and the experiences found. But after we look back, we inevitably turn forward. We make resolutions and predictions for the y...
Posted January 7, 2013
26 ideas from the future
At TED2014, we asked speakers and attendees to riff off the conference's theme ("The Next Chapter") and tell us what might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the next 30 years. From funny and wry to deeply insightful, the answers will surprise you.
"One of the things about learning how to read -- we have been doing a lot ...
Posted March 24, 2014
Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices
Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know.
Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes
Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive.
Tom Rielly: A comic sendup of TED2006
Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the $100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between Tom and Al Gore.
Yves Béhar: Designing objects that tell stories
Designer Yves Béhar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now -- including the "$100 laptop."