Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte 185
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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New quote from the future: (Score:5, Funny)
Jesus... (Score:3, Funny)
Come one, did we really need some computer geek to tell us that?
There's nothing more to see here, next story please.
P2P (Score:5, Funny)
Almost like...The Internet!?!?!
Re:New quote from the future: (Score:4, Funny)
Like this? [bash.org]
Re:I wonder... (Score:1, Funny)
I think you have some priority issues, mate.
Re:Mr. Poo (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, that'd be kind of interesting, being able to defecate via wireless ethernet. Bosses would love it a bit too much though since they wouldn't have to pay for our bathroom breaks. Of course, if we somehow get around to the point that we could do such things, at least maybe P2P would stop being such a sticking point with the government, since they'd have bigger things to worry about, like regulation of bathroom dropoff locations, making sure they aren't, banks and such. Or making sure we don't wirelessly transfer ourselves into bank vaults or.... What?
Re:Not to be logically fallacious... (Score:5, Funny)
Its changed slightly... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Full Faith & Credit (Score:1, Funny)