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Being Digital

Written by: Nicholas Negroponte
Narrated by: Penn Jillette
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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.
©1996 Nicholas Negroponte (P)2009 Random House
Sociology History & Culture Engineering
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" Being Digital flows from the pen (or cursor) of a wizard who is himself helping to create the new cosmos into which we are hurtling....To read Being Digital is to enter the future it describes." ( The New York Times Book Review)

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Reading this in 2022 is interesting

It’s amazing that in 1996 the author writes with such clarity about what the future will look like. I laughed numerous times at the descriptions of everyday items and ways of being. Interesting read nonetheless.

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