BEING DIGITAL is a book written by Nicholas Negroponte, a Professor or media technology at MIT.'Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc; New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd; Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred a. Knopf,inc;New York in 1995. Being Digital is about what life will be like in the not too distant future, life …showed first 75 words of 490 total…

…showed last 75 words of 490 total…over both the content of information that we want entering our homes and the form in which we w ish to see it presented to us. He moves to the interface, and how we need better communication between people and machines. The machine need to know us in order to act intelligently for us (he uses the metaphor of a 'butler'); in particular, they need sensors to know when we are commun icating with them.