The Process of Digitization for Text & Sound, and Its Tradeoffs

The process of digitalization for text and sounds is one that uses standardized numerical values or codes. Each letter symbol is given a unique number that the computers store, manipulate, and transmit. The benefits of this are that there is nearly no loss when...

Advantages & Limitations of Digital Representation

There are many different ways to look at the new digital age, as there are both advantages and disadvantages of being in a digital world. Digitalization has made consistency and portability a whole new world, as we can transmit and copy things with ease while also...

Classifying Objects or Concepts (3400 B.C. to Modern) as Digital or Not Digital

Throughout history, there have been many different objects and concepts that go back and forth between digital and analog. For analog objects and concepts, we have many different things, such as the original antenna TVs, which used an infinite amount of symbols to...

The Essence of What It Means to Be Digital

To be digital is not just the conversion of infinite numbers into 1’s and 0’s, but also how information is stored, transmitted from one to another, manipulated, and finally reproduced without any transmission noise. Analog systems use an infinite number of numbers to...

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