Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

I am so inspired by new media.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made us all viewers. Digitization makes us all broadcasters.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

We do live in this age of new media.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.