{"id":2035,"date":"2008-04-16T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/16\/nicholas-negroponte-from-1984\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:02:26","slug":"nicholas-negroponte-from-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/nicholas-negroponte-from-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Negroponte: From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word &#8220;convergence,&#8221; Negroponte was thinking about TV screens as the &#8220;electronic books of the future&#8221; and computers as the future of education. In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED&#8217;s 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone, and his own One Laptop per Child project. Oh, and there&#8217;s also a fascinating project called Lip Service, which, well, let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s still ahead of us &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/NICHOLASNEGROPONTE-1984_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word &#8220;convergence,&#8221; Negroponte was thinking about TV screens as the &#8220;electronic books of the future&#8221; and computers as the future of education. In excerpts from his 2-hour talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/nicholas-negroponte-from-1984\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicholas Negroponte: From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-wP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}