Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte
Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte
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Being Digital

Author: Nicholas Negroponte

Narrator: Penn Jillette

Abridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/26/2009

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday

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.

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.Penn Jillette is one half of America's most ingenious pranksters, Penn & Teller. Together, they are the authors of Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends and How to Play with Your Food. Over the last 20 years, they've scammed audiences on Broadway and all over the world. They've appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Today, and Saturday Night Live. Their articles have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, the New Yorker, Time, Spy, and numerous podunk publications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Damar

This book is like my Bible in digital journey. I keep rereading it to find inspiration. My fave part is when Negroponte writes that he has seen a prototyp e of touchscreen computer in early 1970s. Wow. Now people feel they are holding tech if they carry new tab, something which arent new at all......more

Goodreads review by Luke

I read this ten years ago and remember it as one of the most prescient books ever. Negroponte spends a and elot of time filling in the gaps between what you were supposed to know in the late 90's about the rise of the digital era, and what you actually absorbed from everyone else who were also just......more

Goodreads review by Inggita

this is a seminal book on media - now we have the luxury of looking back and see if most of Negroponte's predictions have come true - and how it affect our lives. If you read this first, you will find Friedman's "The World is Flat" as merely a follower - since most of the things he found as an amazi......more

Goodreads review by Masatoshi

This book published in the same period of Windows 95 and Netscape makes a hallmark of the technoculture of this era. The main focus is on how to encode the real world information digitally - the discussion was from music to video. He emphasized on the spread of knowledge and its affordability. Natur......more

Goodreads review by Jesse

Prophetic. Although very ironic that the only way to read it is in atom form, instead of bit form.......more

Quotes

"The finest, most understandable explanation of the digital revolution to date....Being Digital is a visionary work, written by one of this planet's masters of media."--The Christian Science Monitor

"Being Digital flows from the pen (or cursor) of a wizard who is himself helping to create the new cosmos into which we are hurtling....To read Being Digital is to enter the future it describes."--The New York Times Book Review

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