Being Digital
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One Laptop per Child...has been in place since 2001 OLPC is based on constructionist learning theories pioneered by Seymour Papert, Alan Kay, and also on the principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte's book Being Digital. These three individuals plus the... In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Laptop, Windows XP, Microsoft, World Summit, Linux, and Fedora |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | July 11, 2009
Jeff Weiner: A serious approach to social networking
...character, he matches him with a love for all things digital. Weiner says he foresaw the importance of the internet when he read Nicholas Negroponte's 1995 book Being Digital. "[Negroponte] said everything that can be converted from an atom...
In this article: LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, Facebook, Yahoo, Greylock Partners, Microsoft, Venture capital, and Iphone
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
Information Age
...developed and many business and industries were greatly changed by ICT. Nicholas Negroponte captured the essence of these changes in his 1995 book, Being Digital. His book discusses similarities and differences between products made of...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, World Wide Web, and United States
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Moderate Voice | September 23, 2009
Newspapers' online salvation: subscribers and multipliers
...and popular features from the left, center, and right I hope Nicholas Negroponte at MIT doesn't get mad if I quote two full paragraphs from his 1995 book, "Being Digital. " I only do it because 1) I desperately want newspapers to...
In this article: John Markoff, Nicholas Negroponte, Googling, Revenue, Alta Vista, MIT, The New York Times, and Barack Obama
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BBC News | September 17, 2008
Titans clash
...Negroponte director of MIT's futurophiliac Media Lab had become completely convinced of the absolute primacy of electronics. How did Negroponte choose to explain himself to the world? He published a paper and ink book called Being Digital.
In this article: Michelangelo, Sony Reader, Nicholas Negroponte, Gotterdammerung, MIT, Guardian Media Group, Stephen Bayley, Alan Rusbridger, and Sony
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Digitality
Digitality Digitality is used to mean the condition of living in a digital culture, derived from Nicholas Negroponte's book Being Digital in analogy with modernity and post-modernity. Aspects of digitality include near continuous contact...
In this article: World Wide Web, Categorization, Spam, Nicholas Negroponte, and Google
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Seeking Alpha | July 30, 2008
Apple Math: Market Share over Margins - Seeking Alpha
...clearly agree with Jason. If you have read the book "Being Digital" by Nicholas Negroponte, he have estimated the Ubiquitous computing by a universal computer you always carry around and use for various purposes. Now, suddenly the future is...
In this article: Apple, Iphone, Revenue, IPod, Dell, Sony, Microsoft, and Steve Jobs
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Danni Ashe
...company's new website. When she could not find anyone competent to help her design her own site as she had envisioned it, Ashe read The HTML Manual of Style and Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital during a vacation. On her return to the...
In this article: Danni Ashe, Hard Drive, Seattle, Los Angeles, United States, Juggs, and Nicholas Negroponte
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Being Digital
...in January 1995 by Vintage Publishing . Being Digital provides a general history of several digital media technologies, many that Negroponte himself was directly involved in developing. Negroponte analyzes the advantages and...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte
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Nicholas Negroponte
...world, the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge. Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some twenty languages. Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wired, Velti, Dow Jones & Company, New York City, World Summit, and Choate Rosemary Hall
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Being Digital is a non-fiction computer science book by famed technology author Nicholas Negroponte. It was originally published in January 1995 by Vintage Publishing.
Being Digital provides a general history of several digital media technologies, many that Negroponte himself was directly involved in developing. Negroponte analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the technologies (such as his belief that High-definition television wastes broadcasting power), and tries to predict how the technologies will evolve. Negroponte presents a strong belief that humanity is inevitably headed towards a future where everything that can will be digitalized (be it newspapers, entertainment, or sex). This leads Negroponte to a quote repeated often in promoting and explaining the book's material, that the book is made of "unwieldy atoms" that will probably be replaced by a digital copy by the time anyone reads the book. Several e-books exist of Being Digital, making the quote rather prophetic.
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