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One of the founding fathers of the information age discusses the impact of digital technology on the modern world, discussing such topics as multimedia, the effects of digital transmission on copyright, and virtual reality. Negroponte was involved in a host of technical advances - the first GUI ( graphic user interface) , was the first to film streets in the manner of Google Street view ( in the Aspen Project in 1978)
An important and prophetic book from the early days of the Internet (1995)
He makes a famous distinction between atoms and bits, pointing out that the latter are easier to transport (once the appropriate infrastructure has been put in place) and infinitely more adaptable; memorably, he asks why Blockbuster Video (which had opened 600 new stores in 1994) should be shipping video cassettes back and forth when their contents could be distributed as bits. He predicted that this change would cause the company would go out of business within ten years (in fact, they were to go bankrupt in 2010).
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