And the switches in the computer are so small, so fast, that they are virtually instantaneous. It's a distinction we have a terrible time keeping clear. Just as we think of the apple as having a shape, a boundary, which is arbitrarily defined as what we can perceive with the eye or hand. Rather than, say, the fuzzy atomic level where apple stuff and surrounding stuff is rather blurry. And having accepted the notion that something as complex as computing can be reduced to digital logic, we now find ourselves bombarded by attempts to digitize life.
Computers can make cleaner, purer music by digitizing it.
Sharper, crisper pictures. Life is not digital. They are unanswerable questions, because they depend upon assumptions, consensus, and representation, not the muddle of reality. Yet the opposite, reductive, binary notion is pervasive in our perceptions, our culture, and our language. The problem, they would have us believe, is one of scale.