How will the digital economy affect our lives?
Hasnt it started affecting your life yet? If you are using the Net, chances are youare already part of the digital future. But it hasnt stopped there.Telecommunications-for instance, mobile phones and videoconferencing-television, medicine,education...work in all these areas has already been transformed by the digital wave. Yousee, digital is not just a piece of technology. Its a medium. Just like we uselanguage to converse, digital is a medium by which man and machines will communicate. Inthe future, you will see a clear distinction between atoms and bits. Atoms are that whichmake the physical world. Bits are information-information thats shared by peoplewith people, people with machine, and machine with machine. Bits are going to morph andexplode. For example, if you are reading a newspaper or a magazine, it may not exist inthe same format in the future on a piece of paper produced by felling wood. Instead, youmay read it on an electronic paper.
Hasnt it started affecting your life yet? If you are using the Net, chances are youare already part of the digital future. But it hasnt stopped there.Telecommunications-for instance, mobile phones and videoconferencing-television, medicine,education...work in all these areas has already been transformed by the digital wave. Yousee, digital is not just a piece of technology. Its a medium. Just like we uselanguage to converse, digital is a medium by which man and machines will communicate. Inthe future, you will see a clear distinction between atoms and bits. Atoms are that whichmake the physical world. Bits are information-information thats shared by peoplewith people, people with machine, and machine with machine. Bits are going to morph andexplode. For example, if you are reading a newspaper or a magazine, it may not exist inthe same format in the future on a piece of paper produced by felling wood. Instead, youmay read it on an electronic paper.