Being Digital

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: Nicholas Negroponte
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/03/1996
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.26w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780679762904
ISBN10: 0679762906
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Computers | Information Technology
- Technology & Engineering | Electronics | Digital

About the Author
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.