Have you ever thought of the limitations and the advantages of digital representation within society? When you think of the digital world, it is easy to focus on the major advancements that have happened within recent years. However, it is important to know a bit about the history of technology that has led to our current state of digital representation.
Next points to discuss in future weeks:
- First phones
- The telegram
- Analog signals
- Chat GPT
- Modern impacts of digital technologies
New info from 3/19 class
What does it mean when we say something is digital? Something is classified as digital if the only thing you can send is numbers. For example, all cellular phone networks and the internet are digital because they process numbers. Every cell phone has to have an analog to ditigal converter to take the analog sound wave and turn it into numbers.