Being digital /
Nicholas Negroponte.
- First Vintage books edition.
- viii, 255 pages : 21 cm.
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.
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Digital communications --Social aspects. Technology and civilization. Computer networks --Social aspects. Interactive multimedia --Social aspects.