Today kids are getting the opportunity to be street-smart on the Internet, where children are heard and not seen. Ironically, reading and writing will benefit. Children will read and write on the Internet to communicate, not just to complete some abstract and artificial exercise. What I am advocating should not be construed as anti-intellectual or as a disdain for abstract reasoning – it is quite the opposite. The Internet provides a new medium for reaching out to find knowledge and meaning.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes:”Today kids are getting the opportunity to be street-smart on the Internet, where children are heard and not seen. Ironically, reading and writing will benefit. Children will read and write on the Internet to communicate, not just to complete some abstract and artificial exercise. What I am advocating should not be construed as anti-intellectual or as a disdain for abstract reasoning – it is quite the opposite. The Internet provides a new medium for reaching out to find knowledge and meaning.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: February 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 16: Hard Fun
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 202
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