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Being Digital
''Being Digital''〔''Being Digital'', 1995. ISBN 0-679-43919-6〕 is a non-fiction book about digital technologies and their possible future by technology author Nicholas Negroponte. It was originally published in January 1995 by Alfred A. Knopf.
''Being Digital'' provides a general history of several digital media technologies, many that Negroponte himself was directly involved in developing. Negroponte analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the technologies (such as his belief that high-definition television wastes broadcasting power), and tries to predict how the technologies will evolve. Negroponte presents a strong belief that humanity is inevitably headed towards a future where everything that can will be digitalized (be it newspapers, entertainment, or sex). This leads Negroponte to a quote repeated often in promoting and explaining the book's material, that the book is made of "unwieldy atoms" that will probably be replaced by a digital copy by the time anyone reads it. Several e-books exist of ''Being Digital'' 〔(''Being Digital'' ) e-book by Cyberdock, 2005. (Incomplete)〕 making the quote rather prophetic.
''Being Digital'' also introduced the "''Daily Me''" concept of a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes. This prediction has also come to pass with the advent of web feeds and personal web portals.
==Bits and atoms==
Negroponte discusses the differences between bits and atoms. Atoms make up physical tangible objects such as CDs, books and letters. Digital information, on the other hand, is made up of bits, the smallest unit of information on a computer. He believes that all forms of information that are now made of atoms (books, CDs, etc.) will eventually be made into bits.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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