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Summary: Made Me Think... my Highest Compliment
Review: A good book opens you mind to new ideas. A GREAT book changes your life and how you think. This is a great book.
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Summary: Being Digital is an optimistic view into the future.
Review: I read this book in December of '97, more than two years after it was published, and was amazed at how relevant it still was. I recommend this book to anyone, as Negroponte seems to be able to write for all. However, the WiReD will probably appreciate the book more, as they can go out and apply and/or develop things Negroponte spoke of. Very good, one of my favs. Gets a 10.
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Summary: Being Digital is the book for beginners and pros
Review: Being Digital is a fantastic book to read if you are new to the world of technology or even if you are an old pro. I couldn't put the book down! Negroponte writes in a simple, straightforward, engaging style that makes everything, from bits and bytes to voice recognition, easy to understand. Before you delve into the world of technology, read this book!
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Summary: Important, but ultimately not far-reaching enough
Review: Computer use will soon be as unavoidable as cash use is now, those digital illiterates will need books like this as an important introduction.However, negroponte is too restrictive in his ideas. OK, he works at the Media Lab at MIT so his research focuses on media & comms. But being digital is about so much more than being able to throw away the TV Listings and not needing to answer the phone.
When we are truly digital, it will be about freeing your data from geographical and political constraints. Yes, even the constraints of time itself.
If you're new to it all, or if you're too focused on Binary tree algorithms read this book. Even the techies should look up from the command line once in a while.
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Summary: A straightforward description of what "being digital" means.
Review: Well written and fascinating subject matter. Negroponte describes in a simple, straightforward manner what "being digital" really means in our society. He discusses convergence in a way that makes it easy to understand. I was struck by his predictions on how we will use digitization to create a huge repository of knowledge from which we select what we want -- leading to the idea of intelligent agents and the increasing need to navigate vast amounts of data
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Summary: Negroponte Teaches History
Review: This work by Nicholas Negroponte is an intriguing look toward the future of technology in our world. Being Digital challenges you to open your mind to the possibilities of technology while forcing your heart to say "I want that". Thirty years from now, this book will be re-released, unchanged, as a history of technology in the twenty-first century
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Summary: the virtual bible of the 20th century
Review: Remember the year 1995, the revolution of the way of communication. This book is the future. Less information about the virtual life and being digital in virtual reality but a great author, well-known in the world of telecommunication.
It`s a must.
a Netizen from germany working as a junior consultant in the International Consulting Company EUTELIS CONSULT
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Summary: How did Mr. Negroponte become a sought after pontificator?
Review: To read this book is to realize the size of the house of cards currently under construction by the marketers of the "information age". I'd have to agree with another reviewer and give it a yawn.
If you find yourself "ooh-ing" and "ah-ing" as you read this book, then you're long overdue for a trip to any sort of wilderness where you can hopefully feel truly inspired and rejuvenated.
Mr. Negroponte has written a book accessible to anyone older than age 10 or, more to the point, anyone who doesn't consider themselves literate in things digital. The book stays at that level throughout. The truly clever T.C. (technologically challenged) among us, however, may not even choose to read this book, realizing that there are more important things in life - for those people I'd point out that the paperback is about the right size to sit on the toilet tank and it is a change from the usual Far Side collections.
Being Digital is not particularly insightful, and basically is just a list of things that we can digitize such as phone conversations and art reproductions.
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Summary: Not for Geeks!
Review: This is a humorously written book with enough meat on the real future and overall possibilities of the use of microprocessors, fiber optics, computers, and cyberspace to elighten all of us "non-geeks." A book you will either pass around to friends or buy them a copy so they will be sure to read. If you read only one book on the information revolution, read Negroponte's
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Summary: Excelent
Review: The best of the bes
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