Nicholas Negroponte Says In The Future We Will Swallow A Pill To Learn

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MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte is a consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. Now he leaves you with another prediction for the coming 30 years.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, and One Laptop Per Child, has been giving TED Talks for 30 years now.  In his latest, he reviews the past with an eye to the future.  He also gives a startling prediction about the next 30 years.

"My prediction is that we are going to ingest information; you are going to swallow a pill and know English. You're going to swallow a pill and know Shakespeare."

"One of the things about learning to read, we have been doing a lot of consuming of information going through our eyes - it may be a very inefficient channel," says Negroponte.  "My prediction is that we are going to ingest information; you are going to swallow a pill and know English. You're going to swallow a pill and know Shakespeare."

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In Negroponte's theory, the pill will break down and go through the bloodstream and then deposit into areas of the brain, effectively uploading the information.

"Have you been hanging out with Ray Kurzweil by any chance?" asks TED's Curator Chris Anderson.

"No, but I've been hanging around Ed Boyden, and hanging around with [...] Hugh Herr, and for a number of people, this isn't quite far-fetched," replies Negroponte.

Boyden, is an optogenetics pioneer and neuroscientist at MIT.  Boyden is also associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and is involved with the US BRAIN Initiative.



SOURCE  TED

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