Two O ur world is changing from an analog to a digital one. T he digital world reflects our existing analog world and in doing so intensifies and can highlight what it is reflecting. In order to understand our analog world we have to know what it means to be digital.
T o use an analogy, analog is a continuous wave-like form.
The wave can rise or lower, expand or contract to express information. A nalogs' ability to vary gives it a powerful ability to represent subtleties while digital representation translates the subtlties into absolutes. A digital document copied a million times maintains the original input. A telephone is an analog device. The built-in speaker unit receives your voice as an analog wave and sends that wave signal down the wires.