It is about acquaintance over time: Machines understanding individuals with the same degree of subltety we can expect from other human beings, including and totally random events, good and bad, in the unfolding narrative of our lives.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Being digital is not enough. Though more costly and time consuming, the fax machine overtook email in the 1960's due to the ease of use, simplistic delivery of messages and graphics, input from hard copy and have legal value with signatures. Nowadays the tables have turned, it is now the email being the most used form of information technology. Realizing the fact that it is more conversational and mobile than fax and come to think of it email has gradually changed the way people think, work and live.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The exception that now became the rule Learning by doing is what so far computers has executed in terms of teaching and helping children learn things. The common assumption that mesmering toys that turn kids into twitchy addicts and havee even fewer redeeming features than the boob tube. Yet there is no question that many e-games teach kids strategies and planning skills which they could possibly use later on in life.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

"machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people" Machine to machine communications changes its character of standards in lieu with being digital. Gadgets attached to our bodies will increase in the future, not only stuck to the now standard wristwatch. The environment will also be more intelligent. It will flex and customize depending on our personal needs. Appliances and cars in the same way will be interactive programmed in a way that the user can talk to them and the user learn something from how they function better yet know what the user is doing, have just done and impressingly what the user is about to do.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The digital superhighway will make finished and unalterable art into a thing of the past. Artists will come to see the Internet as the world's largest gallery for their expressions and use it as a means of disseminating them to people. Moreover, Being digital will allow not just the product but also the process of creating art to be conveyed.

EPILOGUE

As we move more toward such a digital world, an entire sector of the population will be or feel disenfrachised. People will work with less atoms and more bits. Ironically Bits are not edible therefore cannot thwart hunger, computers are not moral. They do not have the capacity to resolve sensitive issues of human rights or death and abortion. Yet digitizing does give much cause for optimism. Like a force of nature it cannot be stopped and is limitless.It has four powerful qualities that will result in its victory: decentralizing, globalizing, harmonizing and empowering.