Founding Chairman of the esteemed MIT Media Lab and one of the world’s foremost experts on how technology impacts business and society, Negroponte extols the virtues of using technology to learn, teach, think and solve big problems.
Having spent decades witnessing firsthand how scores of technological innovations succeeded, failed or got delayed, he shares fascinating stories of how some of our most common uses of technology today – such as touch screen – were initially rejected by critics. In answering the modern-day question of “how much screen time is too much for kids,” he urges us not to abandon our computers for tablets and cell phones, which are used less for learning and more for consumption.
He emphasizes, there’s no such thing as too much screen time if it is being used to stimulate thinking, the kind of thinking that seeks to create, innovate and solve big problems. Lamenting the modern day trend that has tech companies developing apps to make a quick buck, he urges them to turn their much-needed talents toward tackling big societal problems, noting that the pool of technologists doing that good work is getting smaller.
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