Being Digital

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information content is so much more important than bandwidth.




If we would only transmit better-labelled bits, we could do so much more with
the bandwidth we have today. More elaborately, on 'Bits are Bits' here, he
reflects on the difference between bits and atoms: how the shift to an economy
based on the transfer o
f bits is affecting the structure of the information industry; how the
transmission of bits is regulated; and how the major players- the
telecommunications industry, cable operators, and electronics and computer
companies- are reacting to the digital revo
lution (and, in most cases, how they are focussing their efforts on misguided
projects). Along the way Negroponte offers his ideas on how the information
infrastructure should be shaped, where the players should be (re)directing their
efforts, and what al
l this will mean for you and me, as both information consumers and creators. One
of his more intriguing ideas in this section is his view that ...

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