The Post-Information Age
Negroponte tests the readers imagination by giving his insight on how it will be like in the "digital world". He writes "Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible."
He then proceeds by giving examples of what could happen. One that he gave was a doctor in America doing an operation on someone in Alaska.
The discussion then goes to answering machines and emails. Negroponte wished that the answering machines purpose not only be to answer for the person when he/she is not there but to answer always. Something like a secretary. Ane emails, he says, are less interruptive. With emails, we can check and reply at our own time.
In digital life, we ask for what we want and when we want it. In other words, digital life is having more choice and control.
