Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte

Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte In Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital, the author uses modern, every day occurrences to illustrate technologies such as bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet. In addition, he informs us of what technology is moving towards, and makes forecasts concerning these technologies in the future. Negroponte comprehensively covers technology in terms of general technical aspects that most are not aware of, and of how technology is positioned in modern society in…

…t with the personalization of information that technology will allow. The movement away from real time to asynchronous communication is also discussed. He also asserts the pull demand of tomorrow, where consumers will reach out and extract what they need or want from the economy. He further discusses in this section how technology has shaped and continues to affect mediums of communication, education, every day life, our environments, cars, and even art.