Great slidshow on digitial world.

1. Nicholas Negroponte’s BEING DIGITAL

2. BEING DIGITAL Bits are Bits 2

3. BEING DIGITAL Underlying particle of digital computing Smallest element in the DNA of information Bit Colorless Weightless A state of being: 1 or 0 3

4. BEING DIGITAL Atoms & Bits “The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable” Atom Bit 4

5. BEING DIGITAL Bandwidth “Bandwidth is the capacity to move information down a given channel” 5 Fiber Optic Cable Air Waves Copper Cable

9. Hypermedia: A term for highly interconnected narrative or linked information 7

10. BEING DIGITAL Interface 8

12. 11 iTunes

13. 12 Windows Media Player

15. There is no ‘best’ interface

16. ‘Interface Agents’ could be a part of the future13

19. Consistency: designing operations and interfaces to be the sameMobile Phone Calculator

24. Information that has no demographic

25. Ultra focused narrowcasting19 Information Age Industrial Age

27. Its origins can be traced back to 1960, USA

28. It has evolved without an apparent designer in charge of it

29. As of January 2011, 2 billion people are using the internet20

31. BEING DIGITAL 22

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34. Being digital will mean that people will be able to ‘pull bits’ towards them than bits being pushed to them24

37. BEING DIGITAL “Being digital is empowering; the access, the mobility and the ability to affect change.” 27

38. BEING DIGITAL Thank you 28