"Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It's just unbelievably dumb. … [Apple's] building peripherals for iTunes … We can't turn these kids into couch potatoes."
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Mobilize 2010: Negroponte Sees Tablets as Creative Tool in Gigaom (30 September 2010).
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