TitleBeing Digital – A book (p)review
PublicationWired
Date1995-02-01
AuthorNicholas Negroponte
Pagen/a
SourceWired
Clipping idTOA-INT-1995-001
Permalinkhttps://technooptimism.org/archive/internet/toa-int-1995-001
TechnologyInternet
Promise typePolitical Transformation
SummaryThe passage presents digital technology as a force that would weaken hierarchies, decentralize power, erode closed and status-conscious societies, and perhaps even make the nation-state obsolete, replacing rank-based order with a more open and imagination-driven world