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Future Perfect: Dreamers, Schemers & Visionaries

Part One

 

Imagine a poor child in Uruguay. Now imagine giving that young girl a hundred-dollar laptop computer. Imagine the educational opportunities that this laptop will provide this child. Nicholas Negroponte has this very vision, and he's making it a reality throughout the developing world. Also, a video game that makes you cry.

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    One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.

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    Lawrence Lessig is the creator of the Creative Commons and says that our current copyright law is far too restrictive and stifles creativity.

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    Video game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an adrenalin rush.

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    Sherry Turkle discusses the ways in which we are already developing relationships with personal robotic devices from cellphones and iPods to toys like the Furby and My Real Baby.

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  5. James Hughes on "Citizen Cyborg"

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    James Hughes looks forward to the day when we figure out how to merge our human flesh with our computer technology.

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