Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital (Coronet;£6.99 ISBN 0 340 64930 5), the collection of his magazine columns from Wired, appears in paperback this week. Check out the new afterward where Negroponte responds to his critics and fans – and says that the happiest measure of success of his book is that his 79-year-old mother now sends him e-mail daily. He also reveals that he omitted to mention in the hardback that it was Larry Roberts who conceived the Internet in 1963.
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