Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 17, 2004 @08:19AM 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. "

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Not to be logically fallacious... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-17 08:24 · Score: 5, Informative

You should realize that this Nick Negroponte is the SAME GUY that whored himself to Swatch to promote their ridiculous "Internet Time" initiative.
1. Re:Not to be logically fallacious... by generic-man · 2004-06-17 08:40 · 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.
  
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  For more information, click here.
I wonder... by hazy_fakie · 2004-06-17 08:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

exactly how can peer-to-peer networks come into our lives so easily. I mean how do you trust totally unknown people to transfer your data/food/whatever between any two points?
As a matter of fact, who would trust their credit card number to travel through a peer-to-peer network to get to the company he/she's ordering from? And this is just money... how about food as mentioned in the article?