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Being Digital

by Nicholas Negroponte

Computer networks -Digital communications -Interactive media -Social aspectsTechnology and civilizationsocial aspects of Computer networks -social aspects of Digital communications -Computer networks

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.

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