{"product_id":"being-digital-paperback","title":"Being Digital - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Negroponte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - \"Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing Digital decodes the mysteries and debunks the hype surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet. It forecasts technologies that will make your telephone as context-sensitive as an English butler and replace TV broadcasters with intelligent \"broadcatchers\" that assemble and deliver only the programming you want. And this book suggests what being digital will mean for our laws, education, politics, and amusements - in short, for the way we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Negroponte\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestseller \u003ci\u003eBeing Digital\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.03 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41732227825799,"sku":"9780679762904","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5711e4386096f9a9d8a5f558ccae9ae0.webp?v=1734090885","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/being-digital-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}