Will Everything Be Digital?
Not only digital, but wireless, according to a special article for TIME by M.I.T. Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte. Because of improvements in both machines and the batteries that power them, children in the next century will look at our PC the same way kids now look at rotary phones. Computers will be installed in everything from refrigerators to pill containers, and all these objects will be able to pass messages among themselves.
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