User:Atallent/Being Digital

"Negroponte's concept of newspaper's being tailored to our specific interest is something that has been becoming more common over time. Over the years alot of his predictions have become the world we live in. It's amazing how he was able to conduct such research and predict the future, Negroponte was truly ahead of his time."

"Negroponte might need to get the credit for making a lot of his predictions come true, but there is no denying that he influenced a new evolution that we the people are very dependent on in 2019, with more evolution to come. The technology world will never be the same and we can give a big thanks to Nicholas Negroponte for that."


 * These are two statements from the Being Digital article that need to be revised since they largely do not follow Wikipedia's guidelines for presenting a neutral point of view. These statements can also be improved by substantiating its claims with reliable secondary sources. -Atallent (talk) 21:27, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Bits and Atoms
"The bit is the digital, such as computers, but now the bits are becoming the atoms."

* The statement above is confusing. I'd rephrase and say, "The bit is digital or virtual where there is no mass and it can travel and communicate instantaneous throughout multiple platforms."

"The change is shown in the difference between atoms and bits."

* This sentence can be removed for it's a repeat of the initial sentence of the paragraph.

The public utilizes and depends on the information superhighway because the people demand instantaneous results. Bits bring upon instant results without weight or physical matter to rummage through.

Negroponte Switch
Wired. com article, Bits and Atoms, gives examples Negroponte uses to explain the "Negroponte Switch."

Elaborate on his points:


 * Judge Harold Greene and AT&T


 * Pay Per View


 * Do-It-Yourself Library


 * "The New York Times" example of becoming "wired" from a popular traditional paper print source.

KRCPhilmon (talk) 21:42, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Influence, Impact, and the Future
I have added the following:

Negroponte predicted the future of business and its product or service is “almost 100 percent” dependent on its ability to produce it in digital form. (Need to reference or link the book after this sentence. Someone aid me in this!) People expect digital access. Atoms, or its physical counterpart, is considered an old and wasteful format.

Bits for Rent and On Demand
I have grammatically corrected this section. However, you need to go back and add references to each sentence. If you received the information directly from the book, you need to provide the pages.

The Digital
Thomas Haigh argues that “ the digital” has always been sold to be a new realm of human experience. However, the digital stems from the AMC  “ computing machinery “ because of the quantities the computer calculated with were represented by numbers 1s and 0s binary numbers. He argues that the term digital was not necessary  to use with computers by the 1970s. In 1993 wired released a new resonance of the term digital. In the Wired magazine Negroponte promotes the idea of “ the digital.” He states that Negronponte claims past things made of atoms are all important, and in the future everything that mattered would be “made of bits.” Elaborating on the fact that the computers digital nature and main focal points shouldn’t just be on it being an “information machine.” He the quotes negropontes predictions of “ cuff links or earrings communicating with each other, phones being able to respond to calls, socializing in digital neighborhoods, mass media being refined by systems for transmitting and receiving personalized information and entertainment, and more. Haigh agrees that “ our phones do support call screenings, online communities have contributed to increase curtail and political polarization. Also, that Netflix, Twitter, blogs, and YouTube have done more that “ refine” mass media.” The digital environment that negroponte has mentioned is a new area of “ the digital”, but “ the digital” has been a thing since 1940s. Negroponte predictions relate more to the “future area”which is the current.

source -

Haigh, Thomas. “We Have Never Been Digital.” Communications of the ACM, vol. 57, no. 9, Sept. 2014, pp. 24–28. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1145/2644148. Tyra Washington