Download or read book Being Digital written by Nicholas Negroponte and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for you."--Newsday.