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Joichi "Joi" Ito (伊藤穰一, Itō Jōichi, born June 19, 1966) is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and director of the MIT Media Lab. Ito is a professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT and a visiting professor of law from practice at the Harvard Law School.

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I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Break Up, Government, Monopolies, Roles, Talked

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Broad, Centralized, Creativity, Distributed, Instruction, Thinking

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

Important, School, Thing, Touch, Type

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

Believe, Delivery, Gets, Marketing, Media

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Broken, Broken Heart, Democracy, Japan, Place, Tried

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.

Discovery, Old, People, Remix, Waiting

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Definition, Humanitarian, International, Law, Rights, Would Be

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

Needs, Network, Pull, Pulling, Resources

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Berlusconi, Machines, Media, Penetration, People

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Communication, Keep, Moving, Source, Trying

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Adult, Adults, Rest, Rest Of Your Life, Same, Today

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.

Google, Important, Internet, Precedent, Set, Target

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Creates, Money, Payee, Payer, Power Relationships, Relationship

LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network - it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.

Company, Interesting, People, Way, Work, Worked

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

Bond, Fairly, Korea, Strong, Ties

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

People, Question, School, Thinking, Unrelated

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Cash, Check, Democracy, Media, Power

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.

Creativity, Future, Inspiration, Past, Process, Way

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Fight, Fighting, Ideas, Naive, Trying, Written

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

Destroy, Law, Response, Rights, Terrorism, Won

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