14 Facts About Being Digital

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Being Digital is a non-fiction book about digital technologies and their possible future by technology author, Nicholas Negroponte.

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Being Digital provides a general history of several digital media technologies, many that Negroponte himself was directly involved in developing.

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The message in Nicholas Negroponte's, Being Digital, is that eventually, we will move toward an entirely digital society .

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Being Digital introduces the "Daily Me" concept of a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes.

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Being Digital is made up of an introduction, three parts, and an epilogue.

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Being Digital suggested that due to accidents of engineering history we had ended with static devices such as televisions receiving their content via signals traveling over the airways, while devices that should have been mobile and personal, such as telephones, were receiving their content over static cables.

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Being Digital says the consumer experience with "technocultural consumption" is far less favored then its physical and solid products.

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Being Digital says there is a stronger sense of "psychological ownership".

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Being Digital argues that the term digital was not necessary to use with computers by the 1970s.

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Being Digital says it better exemplifies the idea that being digital is more an idea of teaching individuals what or how to think.

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Being Digital says these positions of "individual agency are more than minor variants of conventional tool usage" and that they bring more participation in which causes a buzz or stir.

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Being Digital believes few look at the consequences of the netizens producing a better world from emerging technology and greater social participation.

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Being Digital goes over his thoughts and ideas about if we are truly being digital today.

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Being Digital discusses the book and analyzes the predictions contained therein.

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