Being Digital

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"Being Off Ital is an eye-opener and essentiat reading fbr anyone remotely connected with tlie communications industry. And iticia«ntatly. it's great
fun to read."
-Arthur C. Claricc
"Being Digital brings the endless possibilities of the future into a sharper, focus and happily does not require the reader to attend IMIT in order to ge value from the booit." " . —Rupert Murdoch
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'Knowledgeable, argumentative and entertaining, Nicholas Negroponte writes about the future with the authority of someone who has spent a sreat deal of time there." -Douglas Adams
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"I've never read a booit that has a more distinctly relevant and universally applicable message: The future is upon us, and that future is digital."
— IMichael Schräg, sixteen-year-old Internet user
"With the visionary insights of IWcLuhan, the humor and lucidity of Feynman, Being Digital is the PowerBooit for the nineties and beyond A brilliant, bitwise booic." -George Gilder, author of Telecosm

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"Being Off Ital is an eye-opener and essentiat reading fbr anyone remotely connected with tlie communications industry. And iticia«ntatly. it's great
fun to read."
-Arthur C. Claricc
"Being Digital brings the endless possibilities of the future into a sharper, focus and happily does not require the reader to attend IMIT in order to ge value from the booit." " . —Rupert Murdoch
¦ ¦ ¦ i
'Knowledgeable, argumentative and entertaining, Nicholas Negroponte writes about the future with the authority of someone who has spent a sreat deal of time there." -Douglas Adams
Zj
"I've never read a booit that has a more distinctly relevant and universally applicable message: The future is upon us, and that future is digital."
— IMichael Schräg, sixteen-year-old Internet user
"With the visionary insights of IWcLuhan, the humor and lucidity of Feynman, Being Digital is the PowerBooit for the nineties and beyond A brilliant, bitwise booic." -George Gilder, author of Telecosm

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'Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." Thus writes Nicholas Negro-ponle in the introduction to his visionary new book, Being Digital.
Bits, "the DNA of information," are rapidly replacing atoms as the basic commodity of human interaction, Negroponte shows us the dramatic effects of this change. The difference between a television screen and a computer screen becomes one of mere size. And formerly "mass" media evolves into a personalized two-way street of communication. Information is no longer "pushed" at "consumers." Instead, people or their digital agents "pull" and help create the specific information they need.
The revolution in information technology will liberate computers from the confines of keyboards and screens into objects we talk to, drive with, touch, or even wear. These changes will fundamentally alter how we learn, how we work, how we entertain ourselves—in short, how we live.
Full of the mordant wit that has made Negroponte Wired magazine's most popular columnist. Being Digital is essential reading for all of us. Not since Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media has a book so illuminated our understanding of both our present world and its extraordinary future. Vissza