By 
Nicholas Negroponte
 | 
TED Stage Talk

5 predictions, from 1984

With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project.

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