Title:
Being digital
Author:
Negroponte, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9780679762904
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1996, ©1995.
Physical Description:
viii, 255 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
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.
Abstract:
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.