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 Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred a. Being Digital is about what life will be like in the not too distant future, life in a world in which the bit has replaced the atom as the primary commodity in all our human interactions: in how we entertain ourselves, educate our children, conduct our bu sinesses, and express ourselves. Wide ranging and anecdotal, the book is a compilation of ideas that Negroponte originally explored