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is a book written by Nicholas Negroponte, a Professor or media technology at MIT.'Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc; New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Originally published in hardcover in sligh ....

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.... The result is a read that is often insightful, often madenning, and always provoc ative. In the first part he talks about the communication medium, and how 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 indu ....