The "Negroponte Switch", attributed to MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, posited that signals that historically traveled by wireless methods (television, for example) would soon be transported by landline technologies, and signals that historically traveled by landline methods (telephone, for example) would soon be transported by wireless technologies. This view is referred to as the Negroponte Switch because it suggests a reversal of traditional signal transport markets.[1] In the video below, Mathematics Professor, Arthur Benjamin, contends that Calculus should not be the pinnacle of our mathematics curriculum, and it should be replaced by statistics and probability. He makes the interesting point that since the world has changed from analog to digital, so too should our mathematics curriculum.
[1] David Roddy, Flipping Negroponte's Switch, 1/1/1998.
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