Joichi Ito
Joichi Ito
Joichi "Joi" Itois a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Professor, and Director of the MIT Media Lab...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 June 1966
CountryJapan
discovery people waiting
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
media people machines
Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
inspiration creativity past
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
strong korea ties
I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
believe japan korea
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
people
Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.
google important target
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
boring broads feels
I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
power-relationships
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
whole-life connected has-beens
My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.
risk cost failing
The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
believe ideas rights
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.