Day 10 of 2012

For some reason I have been totally staggered by the real significance of 'digitisation' and the digital revolution. I am surprised how much this technology has moved so stealthily into our lives, and yet its implications are enormous. The digital technology behind this blog is amazing!!

Inside the old piano on the verandah at the disused  Tatersalls Hotel in Murrurundi _____________________________________________ We are more like digital clones than we realise. ____________________________________ Apparently in using  "0's" and "1's" as the code for digitisation,  the combinations of these two  numbers is infinite. The simplicity is awesome, the  implications for technology are stupendous. It seems to me that this is the DNA of technology  which will have as far reaching impact on civilisations as DNA has on the human body.  We all come with a genetic code which enabled the human  species to keep replicating itself. The code determines  everything in the design  and biological functioning  of our body. _____________________________________ An important property of DNA is that it can replicate,  or make copies of itself. Each strand of DNA in the double  helix can serve as a pattern for duplicating the sequence  of bases. This is critical when cells divide because each  new cell needs to have an exact copy of the DNA present in the old cell.

The impact of the digital revolution on our lives is probably the  most significant technological phenomena ever. If this sounds  like an exaggeration, then the next two decades will see the  most far reaching changes digitisation will have on virtually every level of human existence. Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive.  Positive is expressed or represented by the number 1 and  non-positive by the number 0. Thus, data transmitted or  stored with digital technology is expressed as a string of 0's  and 1's. Each of these state digits is referred to as a bit  (and a string of bits that a computer can address individually  as a group is a byte). ______________________________________________ The all-seeing eye of digital technology which is revolutionising  every aspect of our society and our lives.