Visionary's dream of real international wide internet

The angel investor and philanthropist who provided $1 billion worth of laptops to the developing global says the fine way to expect the future is to invent it.

Nicholas Negroponte has consistently proven a knack for looking forward to the following big component, from touchscreens to ebooks.

The 72-year-vintage Greek-American created the one computer One toddler initiative in 2005, bringing cheap internet-capable laptops to children within the developing global.

As co-founding father of the tech-centered Media Lab on the Massachusetts Institute of era, he has a clear view of the following huge factor in technology, with the method of prediction made simpler by way of the large Media Lab group.

"The Media Lab has 700 human beings however they may be doing matters for see you later, you could extrapolate them," Mr Negroponte instructed AAP on a recent visit to Sydney.

"you can mission in which they will pass."

After the computer initiative, the following frontier of mass education is not pc hardware however net connectivity, Mr Negroponte says.

net get entry to is so vital in the modern age, he said, that it was same to a human proper.

"Connectivity is caught in a bind in the intervening time because it's nevertheless in the realm of the non-public zone and very competitive," he stated.

"Attitudes want to exchange, and the attitude may be as simple as re-comparing what is a part of civic society.

"Competitiveness has perhaps long past too some distance."

Mr Negroponte spoke on virtual convergence at the first ever TED communicate conference in 1984.

He created the Media Lab in 1985 with co-founder Jerome Wiesner and directed the laboratory for 20 years.

In Sydney to speak at the recent international business discussion board, Mr Negroponte said in spite of his skill in prognostication there have been things he could not foresee.

"once I commenced the Media Lab 35 years ago I in no way notion it would be a biotechnology lab," he stated.

"It took bringing the scale of synthetic matters down, to attending to this kind of degree that it sort of met with nature."