The average human has 6 billion cells in the brain. Each brain cell has one transistor. For example, music is information which gives impact to the human brain emotionally, intellectually and eventually physically. Education, entertainment, commerce, government and finance activities are all related to information which consists of data. Digital technology development enables us to handle this data very easily.
Digital technology has different characteristics than that of traditional analogue technology.
It has an indestructibility. Because digital consists of bits and bytes in a series of 0 s and 1 s, it doesn't need the material atom to transfer information, therefore there is no need to take from our limited natural resources. Thus making a substantial impact on the refurbishment of the environment in the process. There have been ten billion pages of information produced during 10,000 years of civilization. These pages are migrating to the Internet electronic sphere through web pages, chat, e-mail, newgroups, ftp, gopher etc.