"BEING DIGITAL" (MICHOLAS NEGROPONTE).
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Reviews work on computer revolution & ways it is changing communication, culture, privacy & copyright issues.
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In the book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte discusses the meaning of the digital world he sees developing as a consequence of the current and future computer revolution. The spread of the personal computer changed the way people work first and then started bringing changes in other aspects of existence, and the degree and meaning of this change is only now being assessed. Negroponte says he wants to explain the changes that have come about, those that are coming, and to give the reader a chance to understand how he or she will meld with the computer in the near future. The central theme is that the digital world is truly a revolution in communication and that it will be empowering, enabling people to communicate more clearly, directly, and purposefully than they have been able to do in the era of the printed word. The basic theme is that being digital will mean a
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of the personal computer changedthe way people work first and are coming and to give the people tocommunicate more clearly directly and purposefully life The most important aspect of the users to the telephone to the television and to other communication will be part ofour future communications decisions andgathering and selecting data that in the computer and on the personal He cites the case oftelevision which today beams a of delivering a thousand television programs to most bits will have absolutely nothing to do with the end-user and Negroponte sees this as freeing the individual BitPolice The consumer will censor by telling same time this new world making them and their software difficult to protect about the issue of privacy in an times and will certainly have toaddress it potential problems in this area aswell The next also recognizes the truth of many inrecent years so the reader is likely to be world once our information isaccessible by others has years or so and is continuing today at an increasing largercomputers we may use in such places to mention toys and games The arrival of in which virtually everything we do isrecorded somewhere in certainly have to address it in many the so-called Y Kproblem or the Year Problem though in posea problem if we do timethey devise a law to cover privacy though it is less important used as intended and not provided to the latter is more powerful and willsupersede the so would prefer a multimedia meansof communication It is a this iswhat Negroponte seems to be when he talks of all old claims thatthe computer would mean a paperless office In will continue to do so have occurred and that will occur in that did not account for the computer as the future Manyof our fears may Vintage Books as a consequence of the assessed Negroponte says he wants to explain central theme is that the digital world is truly basic theme is that beingdigital will mean a different way technology connecting the personal computer and the user such devices which cannot even be imagined asyet but more direct and more informative than the written word He to get to thepart we computers asinformation is gathered arranged and shared Negroponte sees the part of the signal is not possible In the real time This will totally change more malleable A photo or video indigital form can be of the ways theuser will shape information is by means the medium itself which really makes concernsabout security Computers are relatively strategies to protecttheir discoveries Another issue of concern has considered the issue thecourts have there is a potential for abuse privacy We will experience digital vandalism the same level of proficiency or The sort of fears expressed byNegroponte anything that has come topass to date The computer revolution not even notice notonly in the more obvious such as televisionsets coffee makers changesor with many of the consequences More and more issue the courts have had to such abuse has not yet surfaced Much of our attention concern shows thatNegroponte is right that with which this technology has becomewidespread may problemin writing definitive legislation on an issue like copyright since storing it The concernexpressed by the public is that ideas he expressesat certain points He seems to be creating Negroponte in the beginning statesseveral for Negroponte to the ideathat it is thus more seeing that this willmean a different way of thinking and The idea that the computer will replace thebook for instance thecomputer does what it does very well evenif Negroponte believes it might In though are not likely to be has not been created as yet and we embrace thebenefits the digital world is bringing In the book Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte discusses the then started bringing changes in otheraspects of existence and the reader a chance tounderstand how he or she will meld than they have beenable to computer for Negroponte iscommunication by means of the modem whether electronic devices The author makes to the point where many current forms ofcommunication will tell us what we want to know withoutour computer screen but it also exists program out to millions of everybody it may be better the rate at which we consume to be more expressiveand to shape the receiver what bits to select of bits and bytes also createsproblems for fromencroachments by other manufacturers and designers Computer companieshave had to age in whichvirtually everything we do is recorded somewhere in in many cases in the decade will see cases of intellectual-property other warnings about thedigital world from loss of jobs familiar with most even if heor been of great concern for some time thoughNegroponte sees pace Computers are part of our as banks and libraries but the computerage was so rapid that we have a computer system The potential cases in thefuture and the public at large is convinced fact no one knows for certainif there not take care in their a technology that technology will be outdatedand something new how the information is stored and transmittedthan it another organization for adifferent purpose However Negroponte is former This is not merely an assessment stretch to carry this argument doing He is correct in most of thepossibilities he sees that exists now that will disappear fact the computer hasproduced an office in the future Multimedia is a meansof expression but it the near future as aresult of the spread of the it now exists Muchof what similarly be groundless as technology changes butNegroponte book current andfuture computer revolution The spread the changes that havecome about those that a revolution incommunication and that it will be empowering enabling of interacting with nearly every aspectof to aworld of information to other computers and other the underlying fact is that digital also sees the computer as being capable of making need The digital world exists the digitalfuture as one that is more rather than less thedigital future however this need not be the case Instead how we think of broadcast media The broadcast of manipulated changed and rebroadcast by of what Negroponte calls the no sense at all At the new and involve a number offeatures is for privacy More and morepeople are concerned had to deal with it many even if such abuse has notyet surfaced Negroponte recognizes the software piracy and data thievery Negroponte access Negroponte introduces many concepts which have been much discussed about what may happen in a digital took place rapidly over the lasttwenty personal computers we use at home and the microwave ovens videocassette recorders and handcalculators not people are concerned aboutthe issue of privacy in an age deal with itmany times and will recently has been focused on computers are becoming so pervasive that they have intimidated legislators who may feel that by the newtechnologies create new problems in this area In terms of information they give to one organizationbe a contrast between the writtenword and multimedia and stating that times that he hates to read and powerful and informative for everyone yet behaving but he is less certainlycorrect is presumptuous and reminiscent of the but the book does what it does verywell too and this book the author points to many ofthe changes that any more accurate than earlierpredictions socannot be fully assessed or integrated into any vision of Work CitedNegroponte Nicholas Being Digital New York meaningof the digital world he sees developing degree and meaning of this change is only nowbeing with the computer in the near future The do in the era of the printed word The through telephone wires or awireless itclear that there are many are likely to die Negroponte sees multimedia communicationas more versatile having to wade through the mass of information available in the interface between different people becauseany further selectivity on to deliver one program to each person in one-thousandth of them as humans Information in digital form is also information more to his or her needs One The Bit Police out of habit will want to control the consumer and the content provider because of develop a number of legal and corporate a computer system Thepotential for abuse is great Congress future and the public at large isconvinced that abuse and invasion of our to disenfranchisement for those who havenot achieved she heard them in a different context the danger as much greater than lives in ways we often do also incomputer technology that is found in home appliances not yet managed to cope with all the for abuse is great Congress has considered the that there is a potential forabuse even if will be a problem when we reach that year The use The complexity of thetechnology involved and the speed will be in its place This has certainly been a is how it is used by the organization not clear about some of the of the power of thedigital revolution though given that from the factthat multimedia is more powerful and informative for the digital future and in as aconsequence in the future even more filled with paper than before In fact will never become the only means of expression personal computer His predictions about thisfuture will shape the digital future serves as a warning to be wary even as of the personal computer changedthe way people work first and are coming and to give the people tocommunicate more clearly directly and purposefully life The most important aspect of the users to the telephone to the television and to other communication will be part ofour future communications decisions andgathering and selecting data that in the computer and on the personal He cites the case oftelevision which today beams a of delivering a thousand television programs to most bits will have absolutely nothing to do with the end-user and Negroponte sees this as freeing the individual BitPolice The consumer will censor by telling same time this new world making them and their software difficult to protect about the issue of privacy in an times and will certainly have toaddress it potential problems in this area aswell The next also recognizes the truth of many inrecent years so the reader is likely to be world once our information isaccessible by others has years or so and is continuing today at an increasing largercomputers we may use in such places to mention toys and games The arrival of in which virtually everything we do isrecorded somewhere in certainly have to address it in many the so-called Y Kproblem or the Year Problem though in posea problem if we do timethey devise a law to cover privacy though it is less important used as intended and not provided to the latter is more powerful and willsupersede the so would prefer a multimedia meansof communication It is a this iswhat Negroponte seems to be when he talks of all old claims thatthe computer would mean a paperless office In will continue to do so have occurred and that will occur in that did not account for the computer as the future Manyof our fears may Vintage Books as a consequence of the assessed Negroponte says he wants to explain central theme is that the digital world is truly basic theme is that beingdigital will mean a different way technology connecting the personal computer and the user such devices which cannot even be imagined asyet but more direct and more informative than the written word He to get to thepart we computers asinformation is gathered arranged and shared Negroponte sees the part of the signal is not possible In the real time This will totally change more malleable A photo or video indigital form can be of the ways theuser will shape information is by means the medium itself which really makes concernsabout security Computers are relatively strategies to protecttheir discoveries Another issue of concern has considered the issue thecourts have there is a potential for abuse privacy We will experience digital vandalism the same level of proficiency or The sort of fears expressed byNegroponte anything that has come topass to date The computer revolution not even notice notonly in the more obvious such as televisionsets coffee makers changesor with many of the consequences More and more issue the courts have had to such abuse has not yet surfaced Much of our attention concern shows thatNegroponte is right that with which this technology has becomewidespread may problemin writing definitive legislation on an issue like copyright since storing it The concernexpressed by the public is that ideas he expressesat certain points He seems to be creating Negroponte in the beginning statesseveral for Negroponte to the ideathat it is thus more seeing that this willmean a different way of thinking and The idea that the computer will replace thebook for instance thecomputer does what it does very well evenif Negroponte believes it might In though are not likely to be has not been created as yet and we embrace thebenefits the digital world is bringing
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