Being Digital Condition:Very Good lesser-known yearsSteve Jobs was a

lesser-known yearsSteve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology

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the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp

the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can

Being Digital Condition:Very Good lesser-known yearsSteve Jobs was aNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Succinct and readable. If you suffer from digital anxiety here is a book that lays it all out for you." NewsdayIn 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.