Week Ten - "The DNA of Information"

Negroponte’s ideas about bit and atom based information concern the accessibility, security, transferability and value. He states that the when asking the value of a laptop, only the atom-based components are measures. Negroponte’s laptop came to $2000 even though he had one million dollars worth of bit-based material within.
A number of pros and cons are discussed by Negroponte concerning bit and atom based information:
Bit-based information can be sent from and to all over the world while atom-based costs to send which can calculate up to forty five percent of the total cost. The time to send atom-based material is also takes longer to than bit-based. Not to mention the efficiency of sending bit-based information with the ease and accessibility of the entire method.
It is later stated that even though bit-based information can be converted into atom-based, it does not mean that atom-based will not one day be able to be converted into bit-based then atom-based.
Even though this was written thirteen years ago, it is still relevant as bit-based information is used the same way as well as atom-based information. The pros and con are also still the same today as it was then.