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Being Digital
N. Negroponte
The DNA of Information
Bits and Atoms
The best way to appreciate the merits and consequences of being digital is to reflect on the difference between bits and atoms. While we are undoubtedly in an information age, most information is delivered to us in the form of atoms: newspapers, magazines, and books (like this one).
Our [...]

Code: The Hidden Language
Charles Petzold
Best Friends
You're 10 years old. Your best friend lives across the street. In fact, the windows of your bedrooms face each other. Every night, after your parents have declared bedtime at the usual indecently early hour, you still need to exchange thoughts, observations, secrets, gossip, jokes, and dreams. No one can [...]

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Enquire Within upon Everything
When I first began tinkering with a software program that even-tually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for "Enquire Within upon Everything," a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London.
With [...]