Joichi Ito: MIT Media Lab -- from a container to a network

inktalks.com Joichi Ito talks about his unique approach to innovation in the age of internet. Ito shares his 9 principles which include 'risk over safety', ' practice over theory', and 'disobedience over compliance'. As he attempts as the Director of MIT Media Lab to evolve the lab from a container to a network, he also announces a collaboration with INKtalks.
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ABOUT JOICHI ITO:
Joichi Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He is the Chair of Creative Commons, on the Board of The New York Times Company, on the Board of the MacArthur Foundation, on the Board of Trustees of The Knight Foundation, and co-founder and board member of Digital Garage an Internet company in Japan. He is on board of a number of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation and WITNESS. He is a member of the IT Strategic Headquarters of the Japanese Cabinet. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Twitter, Six Apart, Wikia, Flickr, Last.fm, Kongregate, Fotonauts/Fotopedia, Kickstarter, Path, Pinwheel and other Internet companies.
He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, We Know (weknow.to/). He is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor, an Emergency First Responder Instructor and a Divers Alert Network (DAN) Instructor Trainer. Ito was named by Businessweek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008. In 2011, Ito was chosen by Nikkei Business as one of the 100 most influential people for the future of Japan and by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers". In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute in recognition of his role as one of the world's leading advocates of Internet freedom.
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[@michelemarie1916]

Best quote ever, "Education is what other people do to me, learning is what you do to yourself".

[@omegacon4]

So which category does Jeffrey Epstein fall under?

[@sandycoueffin401]

Oh I just heard this fella stepped down because of Ebstein connections?