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Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the renowned MIT Media Lab, a frequent contributor to Wired, wrote a book titled “Being Digital” in 1995. His basic premise is that atoms (physical things) will be rapidly converted to bits (binary streams of data) and distributed over high-speed packet networks (the Internet). As an example, he refers to books as “ink crudely spread onto dead trees.” My sister’s library! She would disagree.