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Article: Multimedia animal Wired visionary Nicholas Negroponte is MIT's loud voice of the future
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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CAMBRIDGE -- "I don't have my own office," says Nicholas
Negroponte, 51, bustling in for an interview in a vacant office at
the MIT Media Laboratory. "Having no office is a wonderful thing,"
he muses as he downloads his shrimp-salad lunch, brought in by an
assistant. "You never have to worry about getting someone out of
it."
Write that down: Has no office, avoids entrapment in meetings.
It's Negroponte, all right. Founder and director of the Media Lab,
evangelist of the digital multimedia revolution, fund-raiser
extraordinaire, globe-trotting friend of the rich and famous,
outspoken magazine columnist and now author of a new book, "Being
Digital," Negroponte is seldom confined within ...