数字化生存
Being Digital
Nicholas Negroponte · 初版 1995 年
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以生动、辛辣而机智的文笔，Negroponte揭开了围绕带宽、多媒体、虚拟现实以及互联网的种种迷思，打破了相关的盲目宣传，并解释了为何传真机和CD-ROM等曾备受追捧的创新产品很可能会步BetaMax的后尘。“言简意赅，引人入胜。……如果你正饱受数字化焦虑的困扰……这本书将为你彻底指明方向。”——《Newsday》。
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这让我想起了尼葛洛庞帝的观察（出自他 1990 年代中期的著作《数字化生存》（Being Digital））。当时，数字电视还卡在到底该用哪种高清标准的争论中。他说对大多数人在大多数时候来说，标清就足够了……
Reminds me of Negroponte's observation (in his book Being Digital from sometime in the mid 1990s). At the time, digital television was hung up in debates about what high-definition standard to use. He said that for most people most of the time, standard def was fine…
我一点都不觉得困扰。我和尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝是一个阵营的，他在《数字化生存》（Being Digital）一书中把高清视频斥为浪费带宽，认为同样的带宽应该用来提供更加个性化、互动性更强的体验。基本上对于绝大多数娱乐内容来说，标清视频就已经足够了。……
Doesn't bother me in the least. I am in the camp with Nicholas Negroponte who in his book Being Digital dismissed HD video as a waste of bandwidth, arguing that the same bandwidth should be used for more personalized, interactive experiences. Basically standard def video is fine for almost any entertainmment.…
这倒让我想起了尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝 1995 年的书《数字化生存》（Being Digital），他在书里提到（凭记忆转述）：搞 HDTV 是个错误；对于数字电视，除了单纯提高分辨率，我们完全能做更有意义的事情。Retina 屏也许挺不错，但从……来看
I was more reminded of Nicholas Negroponte's 1995 book Being Digital in which he said (paraphrasing based on recollection) that HDTV was a mistake; that we we could do better things with digital television than simply increasing the resolution. Retina may be great, seen…
……很值得一读或一听。YouTube 上有好几个他的访谈。埃丝特·戴森（弗里曼的女儿）和尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝也是我成长过程中读过的那一派学者，跟托夫勒的路线类似。我记得后者的《数字化生存》（Being Digital）在当时看来立意深刻，但在今天看来已经有点过时了，因为他聊到的那些未来的奇迹全都实现了。尼葛洛庞帝后来还搞了“每个孩子一台笔记本”（One Laptop Per Child）项目，后来也没什么声音了……
…to read or listen to. He has several interviews on YouTube. Esther Dyson (Freeman's daughter) and Nicholas Negroponte were others I read growing up along the lines of Toffler. I remember the latter's Being Digital as being profound at the time but passe in today's world since all of the marvels of the future he talks about came to fruition. Negroponte also came up with the One Laptop Per Child which lost it's relevance…
……建构主义最早由 MIT 媒体实验室的西蒙·派珀特（Seymour Papert）教授于 20 世纪 60 年代提出，后来由艾伦·凯（Alan Kay）进一步阐发，并融入了尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝在其著作《数字化生存》（Being Digital）中阐述的各项原则。”——http://laptop.org/vision/mission/ 如果你在 http://www.papert.org/articles/SituatingConstructionism.html 上进一步了解建构主义，就会发现它与这种“自由……是一脉相承的。
…constructionism first developed by MIT Media Lab Professor Seymour Papert in the 1960s, and later elaborated upon by Alan Kay, complemented by the principles articulated by Nicholas Negroponte in his book, Being Digital." --- http://laptop.org/vision/mission/ If you read more about constructionism at http://www.papert.org/articles/SituatingConstructionism.html, you will see that it is consonant with the freedom "to…
尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝在《数字化生存》（Being Digital，1996）中最有意思的论断之一，就是家庭的上行和下行带宽将会完全一致，而且家庭服务器会无处不在。我记得他举的关键例子就是祖父母和孙辈之间的实时视频互动。……
One of the most interesting claims in Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital (1996) was that bandwidth would be the same into and out of the home, and that home servers would be ubiquitous. I think his key example was the idea of live video exchange between grandparents and grandchildren.…