Being digital / Nicholas Negroponte.

By:

Negroponte, Nicholas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1995.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: viii, 255 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0679762906 (pbk.)
9780679762904 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.48 NEG

Contents:

Part One: Bits Are Bits -- 1: The DNA of Information -- 2: Debunking Bandwidth -- 3: Bitcasting -- 4: The Bit Police -- 5: Commingled Bits -- 6: The Bit Business -- Part Two: Interface -- 7: Where People and Bits Meet -- 8: Graphical Persona -- 9: 20/20 VR 116 -- 10: Looking and Feeling -- 11: Can We Talk About This? -- 12: Less Is More -- Part Three: Digital Life -- 13: The Post-Information Age -- 14: Prime Time Is My Time -- 15: Good Connections -- 16: Hard Fun -- 17: Digital Fables and Foibles -- 18: The New E-xpressionists -- Epilogue: An Age of Optimism.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	303.48 NEG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100569301

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

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.

Includes index.

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nicholas Negroponte is the author of the bestseller Being Digital , which has been translated into more than 40 languages. Negroponte is the co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, which he directed for its first 20 years. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte is considered a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design. He gave the first TED talk in 1984 and has given over a dozen more since. He founded the non-profit One Laptop per Child, which deployed $1 billion of laptops for primary education in the developing world.