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Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learn-at-the-feet dept.

Lisa Langsdorf writes "Thought you might be interested in this interview between Nicholas Negroponte and BusinessWeek Online's Steven Baker. In it, Nicholas says that peer-to-peer is his prediction as to which new products or services are likely to make the biggest splash, he says: Peer-to-peer is key. I mean that in every form conceivable: cell phones without towers, sharing leftover food, bartering, etc. Furthermore, you will see micro-wireless networks, where everyday devices become routers of messages that have nothing to do with themselves. Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. "

6 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. New quote from the future: by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Honestly mom, that pr0n was just going THROUGH my device. I think it just got stuck!"

    1. Re:New quote from the future: by mattjb0010 · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Honestly mom, that pr0n was just going THROUGH my device. I think it just got stuck!"

      Like this?

  2. Jesus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well blow me, this guy is obviously a genious. I mean after all this time that several million people have been using P2P, somebody thinks it might be used a lot in the future..

    Come one, did we really need some computer geek to tell us that?
    There's nothing more to see here, next story please.

  3. P2P by Unnngh! · · Score: 4, Funny
    devices become routers of messages that have nothing to do with themselves

    Almost like...The Internet!?!?!

  4. Re:Not to be logically fallacious... by generic-man · · Score: 5, Funny

    Internet Time is NOT ridiculous. It represents a new paradigm in temporal spatiality, allowing for unfettered representation of the current moment synchronetically throughout the world.

    --
    For more information, click here.
  5. Its changed slightly... by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that same magazine mostly consists of pictures of things you are supposed to buy interspersed with pictures of Sergei Brin and Steve Jobs. Its still mostly toilet paper though.