Digital: In computer based systems, the integration and manipulation of information is facilitated if all data is in a digital format. Digital data resources are eminently more flexible than those in an analog format, and the quality of digital data transmission is higher. Since the digital format is a noise-free medium that can error correct, eventually all media will be stored, processed, and transmitted in digital form. Nicholas Negroponte, the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, has asserted that he "can see no reason for anyone wanting to work in the analog domain anymore -- sound, film, video. All transmission will be digital" (Negroponte in Brand, 1988). Data Storage Storage Format