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Being Digital

by Nicholas Negroponte

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Publisher Comments:

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries — and debunks the hype — surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.

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"Succinct and readable....If you suffer from digital anxiety...here is a book that lays it all out for you." Newsday

Synopsis:

Being Digital decodes the mysteries and debunks the hype surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet. It forecasts technologies that will make your telephone as context-sensitive as an English butler and replace TV broadcasters with intelligent "broadcatchers" that assemble and deliver only the programming you want. And this book suggests what being digital will mean for our laws, education, politics, and amusements - in short, for the way we live.

Synopsis:

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. " Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679762904
Editor:
Negroponte, Nicholas
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Author:
Negroponte, Nicholas
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Technology
Subject:
Telecommunications
Subject:
Digital communications
Subject:
Computer networks
Subject:
Information technology
Subject:
Technology and civilization
Subject:
Interactive multimedia
Subject:
Interactive multimedia -- Social aspects.
Subject:
Computer networks -- Social aspects.
Copyright:
1995
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Series Volume:
45
Publication Date:
January 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8.03x5.26x.60 in. .52 lbs.
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