# Quote — Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital

> Personal computers will make our future adult population simultaneously more mathematically able and more visually literate. Ten years from now, teenagers are likely to enjoy a much richer panorama of options because the pursuit of intellectual achievement will not be tilted so much in favor of the bookworm, but instead cater to a wider range of cognitive styles, learning patterns, and expressive behaviors.

- Author: [Nicholas Negroponte](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-negroponte.md)
- Book: [Being Digital](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-negroponte/being-digital.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-negroponte/being-digital/personal-computers-will

## More from this book

> True personalization is now upon us. It's not just a matter of selecting relish over mustard once. The post-information age is about acquaintance over time: machines' understanding individuals with the same degree of subtlety (or more than) we can expect from other human beings, including idiosyncrasies (like always wearing a blue-striped shirt) and totally random events, good and bad, in the unfolding narrative of our lives.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-negroponte/being-digital/true-personalization-is-now.md)

> The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-negroponte/being-digital/the-change-from.md)