Nicholas Negroponte Years Quotations

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.