Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, in 1984

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