Pushing the edge

A 30-year history of the future

Touch screens and ebooks are just a few of Nicholas Negroponte's predictions over the years, but what has he predicted for the next 30 years?

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today.

Take a look at five of Nicholas Negroponte predictions in 1984, here.