In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If[...]
The authors examine the convergence of digital technologies, products and services which form 'killer apps' that transform industries, redefine markets and annihilate the competition, as well as looking at how to transform a company into one where the production of a 'killer app' becomes a real poss[...]