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by Nicholas Negroponte

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"Being Digital" has been translated in many other languages. You can read short Internet presentations of the paper book and its topics in German, Italian, and Portuguese (Brazilian).

Visit the MIT Media Lab and MIT:

• The MIT Media Lab
• The Media Lab at 10 by Fred Hapgood (To access this article, you need to register with WIRED as a member!).
• MIT Media Lab Projects
• The Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

More about Agents, the digital "British butler[s]":

• The Autonomous Agents Group
• What's An Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study
• Autonomous Agents Abstracts
• Collaborative Interface Agents
• About HOMR, formerly Ringo (and now Firefly): Pros and Cons
• About WWW Search Agents Used by the Link Editor of "Being Digital"

Virtual Reality Sites:

• NASA/JSC Virtual Reality Lab
• Open Virtual Reality Testbed Home Page
• Hot Virtual Reality Sites
• The NCSA Virtual Reality Lab
• The Tecate Visualization System (The San Diego Supercomputing Center)
• The TRIANGLE Virtual Reality Group (AD)
• 3Space Virtual Reality and Interactive Graphics (AD)
• Matsushita: Life Stage Virtual Reality software allows customers to design their own kitchen
• The Imaging and Distributed Computing Group (the Information and Computing Sciences Division, Lawrence - Berkeley Laboratory)
• STAR WARS Multimedia WWW (CMU)

Everybody Uses Email! Look at This Example of Asynchronous Communications via the WWW:

• Electric Postcards, a Media Lab Project

On-Demand Information: Newspapers, Video, Television

• Fishwrap, a Personalized Newspaper Project at the Media Lab
• Starlight Networks: Digital Video Networking Products, Video-On-Demand (AD)
• Structuring the Info-Highway: An Alternative to Video-on-Demand Architecture
• Videomaker (AD)
• On-Demand Video Network Architectures and Applications
• The Motion Picture Parser (MPP)
• Singapore Telecom awards contract for VOD trial system (AD)
• Singapore Telecom starts VOD technical trial
• Singapore Telecom signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Time Warner Cable for Video-On-Demand (VOD) projects
• Blockbuster's acquisition of Boston Chicken "testified to a keen business insight"!
• Would you like to listen to your favourite TV tune now? Sound Bytes: The WWW TV Themes Home Page
• Would you like to look at recent TV images put on the Net by Miles, a Californian student?
• TV Net: Interactive TV Index (AD)
• TV Net: The Ultimate TV List (AD)
• Mission to Cyberspace: Experiments of interactive TV programs of NHK
• TV-Programs in Europe
• TV, Radio, Movies
• Point and Shoot Telerobotic Video at Labcam, NYU

The Call of the Modem:

• Home Pages of Telecommunications/Networking Companies (ADS)

The Topology of a Shrinking Planet:

• The Tele-Garden - A Tele-Robotic Installation on the WWW
• Canada, University of Waterloo: you can visit the Computer Science Club NOW!
• England, the Bradford Robotic Telescope can be controlled over the WWW
• Australia, a telerobot which you can play with from here
• The Burgundy Cellar's Home Page (AD)
• The Virtual Vineyards (AD)

Teaching Disabled, Learning Enabled:

• The MIT Media Lab: The Epistemology and Learning Group
• Papers of the Epistemology and Learning (E&L) Group of the MIT Media Lab
• LEGO/Logo Research and Products...
• The Computer Clubhouse at the Computer Museum in Boston, Massachussetts
• Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science
• The Editor's Selection of Electronic Games (ADS)
• List of best education places from Berkeley

Intelligent Machines, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence:

• Millersville University: Intelligent Machines Laboratory
• UC Berkeley: Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
• AI, Natural Language, massively parallel systems - UC Berkeley
• CMU Computer Vision
• CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
• MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  • The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  • MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
  • MIT Clinical Decision Making Group
• Other Robotics Related Sites of Interest
• The Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the UTRC
• Robotics-Related Web Servers
• Autonomous Systems Group: Robotics and Neurocomputing (University of Amsterdam)
• UMass: Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics
• Wan Yic Lee: Research Papers and Pictures of Robots
• Mark C. Torrance, MIT AI Lab: Natural Communication with Mobile Robots
• Artificial Intelligence in General: A subject Catalogue
• Intelligence artificielle, Switzerland
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Istituto Trentino di Cultura
• Automatic Speech Recognition Lab at UIUC
• Speechreading by Man and Machine - International Conference
• Science Fiction Robot List

Wearable Media:

• Progress in battery technology at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of the University of California: Electromechanical Batteries
• Timex (AD)

Bits and Mortar: The Smart House

• Integration of Home ITs: The Trend towards the Smart House
• ACM: Forum on Risks to the Public in Computer and Related Systems
• Smart Houses? No Thanks by Jim Brown

Smart Cars:

• Bitronics, Inc. (AD): Automatic Vehicle Location is using Loran C or GPS for aircraft, marine and ground vehicles to navigate and send to a dispatcher to watch their fleet moving on a digital map on a central computer
• DeLorme Mapping: (AD) From the paper Atlas to CD-ROM and online mapping products
• Sun Microsystems: SpeechActs: Overview (AD)

The New E-xpressionists:

• "School" of the future by Seymour Papert
• CyberKids : children's artwork in an online magazine for kids by kids (AD)
• Computers and Music at the MIT Media Lab
• MIT Media Lab: Synthetic Listeners and Performers
• The Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit on the Internet: Music
• The HotWired Soundz site
• Learning Music with Computers
• Clifford Stoll's opinion, as expressed in his book Silicon Snake Oil -- Second Thoughts on the Information Highway, differs from Negroponte's.
• A Virtual Museum in France
• Matsushita Studios (AD)
• Yahoo Search: Exhibits of Computer-Generated Art

What Do Other Authors Say about Living, Reading, Writing, and Working in the Electronic Age?

• Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies - The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (fragments)
• Kurt Johmann: The Computer Inside You
• Richard Lanham: The Electronic Word
• William J. Mitchell: City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
• Howard Rheingold's Home Page
• Clifford Stoll: Silicon Snake Oil - Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (fragments)

Other Relevant Sites:

• HotWired (AD)
• Z Central: Swedish Alternative to Wired (AD)
• The Digital Highway Report Japanese (AD)
• CyberKind (Prosaics and Poetics for a Wired World) (AD)