Back in 1995, I bought a book called "Being Digital" by Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte is the founder of the MIT Media Lab, as well as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project.
I read it cover-to-cover several times, and it had a strong influence on me at the time, and many of the predictions made within it turned out to be right on the money.
Somewhere along the way, I lost it. I don't know if I loaned it out and never got it back, misplaced it in a move - I just don't know where it went. So I wanted to replace it, and read it again.
Now that I live in the bright, shining digital future Negroponte foretold, I wanted to buy it in digital form to read on my iPad. Get this - it's not available in readable digital form. It's only available in print and audiobook (narrated by Penn Jillette). WTF?!?
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