Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

Abroad, technological change will create even more disruption as the wave of acceleration engulfs societies that have not yet come to terms with the social demands of industrialization, let alone more recent technological change. Mass disorientation can become the source of both national aggression and non-state terrorism—aggression and terrorism made all the more devastating by access to weapons that are not only increasingly powerful but also deployable by ever smaller groups.

India will not be at the center - it will be the center of this fourth technology shift.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.