screen, but it also exists in the interface between different computers as information is gathered, arranged, and shared. Negroponte sees the digital future as one that is more rather than less personal. He cites the case of television, which today beams a program out to millions of people because any further selectivity on the part of the signal is not possible. In the digital future, however, this need not be the case:
Instead of delivering a thousand television programs to everybody, it may be better to deliver one program to each person in one-thousandth of the real time. This will totally change how we think of broadcast media. The broadcast of most bits will have absolutely nothing to do with the rate at which we consume them as humans (36).
Information in digital form is also more malleable. A photo or video in digital form can be manipulated, changed, and rebroadcast by the end-user,
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