Name: A 30-year history of the future
Uploaded: 2014-07-08T15:00:54Z
Duration: 19 min 29 s
Description: 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.

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: A 30-year history of the future

A 30-year history of the future

From thought-ridiculed touch and pressure-sensitive screens in the '70s to ubiquitous electronic books, technology's evolution surprises.

Negroponte's prescient 'Negroponte switch' foresaw the digital inversion of telecommunications, exemplifying visionary insight.

Predicting a radical future, ingesting information via pills could transform learning, challenging our conception of education.