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Hasn’t it started affecting your life yet? If you are using the Net, chances are you
are already part of the digital future. But it hasn’t 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. You
see, digital is not just a piece of technology. It’s a medium. Just like we use
language to converse, digital is a medium by which man and machines will communicate. In
the future, you will see a clear distinction between atoms and bits. Atoms are that which
make the physical world. Bits are information-information that’s shared by people
with people, people with machine, and machine with machine. Bits are going to morph and
explode. For example, if you are reading a newspaper or a magazine, it may not exist in
the same format in the future on a piece of paper produced by felling wood. Instead, you
may read it on an...
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