Nicholas Negroponte design education future entertainment interface media technology

Description: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment & design. Years before anyone was using the word "convergence," Negroponte was thinking about TV screens as the "electronic books of the future" & computers as the future of education. In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED's 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone, & his own One Laptop per Child project. Oh, & there's also a fascinating project called Lip Service, which, well, let's just say it's still ahead of us ...