Being Digital
Beginning of paper
is a book written by Nicholas Negroponte, a Professor or media
technology at MIT.'Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division
of Random House, Inc; New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of
Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred a.
Kno ....
Middle of paper
.... since he originally wrote many of
the Wired pieces. The result is a read that is often insightful, often
madenning, and always provoc
ative. In the first part he talks about the communication medium, and how
information content is so much more important than bandwidth.
If we would only transmit better-labelled bits, we could do so much more with
the bandwidth we have today. More elaborately, on 'Bits are Bits' here, he
reflects on the difference between bits and atoms: how th ....
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