Research Catalog

Title

Being digital / Nicholas Negroponte.

Author

Negroponte, Nicholas.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1995.

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Details

Description

viii, 255 p.; 21 cm.

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.

Subject

• Digital communications > Social aspects
• Technology and civilization
• Computer networks > Social aspects
• Interactive multimedia > Social aspects

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Library Journal Best Books

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.

ISBN

0679762906 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 34018100
• SCSB-9920495

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library