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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Being digital
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Negroponte, Nicholas
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Knopf
    date issued: 1995
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  physical description:
    form: print
  abstract: Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition. In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Negroponte praises computers for their educational value but recognizes certain dangers of technological advances, such as increased software and data piracy and huge shifts in our job market that will require workers to transfer their skills to the digital medium. Overall, Being Digital provides an informative history of the rise of technology and some interesting predictions for its future.
  note: Nicholas Negroponte.
  subject:
    topic: Digital communications,Technology and civilization,Computer networks,Interactive multimedia
  subject:
    topic: Social aspects.,Social aspects.,Social aspects
  classification: 303.48
  classification: N393
  record info:
    record creation date: 210402
    record identifier: CTU_95115