Being Digital
Nicholas Negroponte
May 2009 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Penn Jillette
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday
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.
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.
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Nicholas Negroponte is the author of the bestseller Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. Negroponte is the co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, which he directed for its first 20 years. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte is considered a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design. He gave the first TED talk in 1984 and has given over a dozen more since. He founded the non-profit One Laptop per Child, which deployed $1 billion of laptops for primary education in the developing world.
Penn Jillette is one half of America's most ingenious pranksters, Penn & Teller. Together, they are the authors of Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends and How to Play with Your Food. Over the last 20 years, they've scammed audiences on Broadway and all over the world. They've appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Today, and Saturday Night Live. Their articles have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, the New Yorker, Time, Spy, and numerous podunk publications.
Penn Jillette is one half of America's most ingenious pranksters, Penn & Teller. Together, they are the authors of Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends and How to Play with Your Food. Over the last 20 years, they've scammed audiences on Broadway and all over the world. They've appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Today, and Saturday Night Live. Their articles have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, the New Yorker, Time, Spy, and numerous podunk publications.
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