Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.

-Nicholas Negroponte

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Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator

Nicholas Negroponte

Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.

Topic

Dream

Thinking

People

I'd Like To Describe A Sort Of Life 20 Years Ago As Being A Fried Egg. There Was A Yolk And A White And The White Was Maybe Work, And The Yolk Was Life. Today, It's More Of An Omelet. It's More Mixed And It's More Interspersed And I Think That That's A More Interesting State Of Being And For Some People, They'll Say Well I Want The Crisp, Fried Egg Approach To Life.

Thinking

Eggs

White