TY - BOOK AU - Negroponte, Nicholas TI - BEING DIGITAL U1 - 303.4833 PY - 1995/// CY - USA PB - Alfred A Knopf KW - Social sciences, sociology & anthropology  KW - Social processes  KW - Social change  KW - Causes of change  KW - Development of science and technology  KW - Communication N1 - In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for you."--Newsday ER -