Being Digital by Nicolas Negropointe was a very interesting book. I am not a big reader so it is hard for me to get into a book. But Negropointe provided a new view of some of the implications of digital technology that I have never heard before. Some of the other things that kept me in the book were the short chapters and the simple analogies, which really help me understand him more about were he is coming from. I also like the way he showed me his perspective through non-technical terms. It was not hard to understand at all. I liked the way he views the impact of technology through diverse perspectives. I was also particularly fond of the way he backed up or supported a lot of his information with real life stories and events. Now I am going to discuss in detail the parts of the book I liked and disliked.
Finally, I believe that Negropointe took a good point and made it even better. I really enjoyed this book it really opened me up and made me think about a lot of things going on in our world today. It is one of those books that slaps you in the face with the truth whether you want to hear it or not.
In chapter 1, I really liked the way Negorpointe used the terms bits and atoms. The way he described them and how they are used is amazing. I never would have thought a form of an atom would be a newspaper, magazine, or a book. Bits are pretty much any information not in physical material. I also liked the way he compared businesses, like the information delivery business being bits and the manufacturing business being atoms. I never though
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