A 30-Year History of the Future

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die." – Jack Ma

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.

• 1960s - computation, timesharing, AI, CAD, robotics
• 1970s - interface, fingers, voice, displays, wearables
• 1980s - new media, ebooks, digital TV, the medium is not the message
• 1990s - telecommunications, bandwidth,
• 2000s - learning, consturcitonism, where there are no schools
• 2010s - connecting the last billion people