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No one can be sure of the future or what is going to happen, but there are those who are imaginative enough to predict it. In Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte presents his vision for the future of mediating technologies, how they could and should evolve, and how they will have an impact on our lives. He presents his personal and first-hand experience with the development of multimedia, personal computing, virtual reality, the Internet and other …
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…facilitate companies and different disciplines working together using a common language. Finally, the most important promise of the digital age is its ability to empower. "The access, the mobility, and the ability to effect change are what will make the future so different from the present."(p.231). And digitization will increase dramatically with each generation becoming more digital than the preceding one. Being digital is not about the future: "It is here. It is now."
…facilitate companies and different disciplines working together using a common language. Finally, the most important promise of the digital age is its ability to empower. "The access, the mobility, and the ability to effect change are what will make the future so different from the present."(p.231). And digitization will increase dramatically with each generation becoming more digital than the preceding one. Being digital is not about the future: "It is here. It is now."
