Authors: Nicholas Negroponte
ISBN-13: 9780679762904, ISBN-10: 0679762906
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
About the Reader
Penn Jillette won an Obie and an Emmy for his theater and television performances with his partner, Teller. Together they have also written two bestselling books. On his own, Penn is the voice of Comedy Central and lectures at various computer and science conferences.
In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteriesand debunks the hypesurrounding 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.
Negroponte, a Wired columnist and founder of MIT's Media Lab, presents an accessible guide to the cutting edge of digital technology and his predictions for its future. (Jan.)
Introduction: The Paradox of a Book | 3 | |
1 | The DNA of Information | 11 |
2 | Debunking Bandwidth | 21 |
3 | Bitcasting | 37 |
4 | The Bit Police | 51 |
5 | Commingled Bits | 62 |
6 | The Bit Business | 75 |
7 | Where People and Bits Meet | 89 |
8 | Graphical Persona | 103 |
9 | 20/20 VR | 116 |
10 | Looking and Feeling | 127 |
11 | Can We Talk About This? | 137 |
12 | Less Is More | 149 |
13 | The Post-Information Age | 163 |
14 | Prime Time Is My Time | 172 |
15 | Good Connections | 184 |
16 | Hard Fun | 196 |
17 | Digital Fables and Foibles | 206 |
18 | The New E-xpressionists | 219 |
Epilogue: An Age of Optimism | 227 | |
After Words | 233 | |
Acknowledgments | 241 | |
Index | 249 |