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Being digital / Nicholas Negroponte.
Author
Negroponte, Nicholas
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : Knopf, 1995.
Description
viii, 243 pages ; 22 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
TK5103.7 .N43 1995
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Subject(s)
Digital communications
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Social aspects
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Technology and civilization
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Computer networks
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Social aspects
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Interactive multimedia
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Social aspects
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Information society
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Computers and civilization
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
pt. 1. Bits are bits. The DNA of information
Debunking bandwidth
Bitcasting
The bit police
Commingled bits
The bit business
pt. 2. Interface. Where people and bits meet
Graphical persona
20/20 VR
Looking and feeling
Can we talk about this?
Less is more
pt. 3. Digital life. The post-information age
Prime time is my time
Good connections
Hard fun
Digital fables and foibles
The new e-xpressionists.
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ISBN
0679439196
9780679439196
LCCN
94045971
OCLC
31816356
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