These words gather more gravity since they come from a man who heads MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, founded by him to work on the new radical approaches to human, computer interface.

In future, the connectivity between a machine and the human body will increase. Human beings will try to solve issues through machines connected to them which, in turn, will collect data on their own and, after analysing it, will suggest remedial measures. "But surely, the size of machines will also be scaled down to suit all daily needs. I will swallow a computer which will go inside and will provide all my health statistics such as my blood pressure, or may be even tell me what's wrong with my health," he said.

However, he felt that the talk about machines with artificial intelligence controlling human life could be too exaggerated to be true. "We are driven by large expectations about machines in daily use. I still do not want my fridge to tell me what to eat, or what is good for me," he said.

The professor chose not to predict the future course of technology, since he felt that no person had any control over it. "While we were at the MIT lab, we always thought about the next invention, and wondered what next? There was even a feeling among us that there was nothing more to work on or innovate. But today, change is happening at a furious pace. The single thing made all this possible is the Internet," Negroponte said. Today, the labortory comes out with 10 different ideas each day.

He, however, felt that the futuristic digital technology, the halogram, is at least 10-20 years away. The technology, which takes the screen image out of the machines, needs high resolution of data and bandwidth, such as few gigabytes of memory per second for processing.

"But today's requirements are different. I feel we should build machines that act on information acquired by itself, rather than being told what to do. The machines should be able to collect, classify, and divide information from each and every process," Negroponte said.

At of now, the technology's influence will be felt dramatically in traditional sectors like media and publishing. Negroponte said large media houses and publishing empires would shrink to become more local-focused in news content. "This has been proved correct in most countries, other than few exceptions like China, where there are large restrictions on Internet and electronic media," he said.