Being Digital
"The best way to appreciete the metris and consequences of being digital is to reflect on the diffrence between bits and atoms" (p:11)says Negroponte. A bit is the smallest part of the information and composed of 0 and 1. To digitize any information it needs to be writen in 1 and 0. Being digital means you can deliver a signal without any sound of hiss or television snow. So those kinds of errors are eleminated by being digital. If all media is digitalized then all bits will be mixed such as multimedia. And also a new kind of bit will be born which will inform us about other bits. Thre is a consept like bandwidth which means the capacity to move down the information in a given channel. The copper, the fiber and the wave are the most important medium to transmit the information. The copper has a low bandwidth when we compare with fiber. The capacity of fiber is infinite. The wave (ether), is assumed as infinite however we all know that with cordless telephones many problems occures. The adventage of the fiber is; it is easy to make the maintenance and such reasons.The only adventage of the copper is seen while delivering power. For example telephone companies are proud of not to be cut the telephone lines while an
To develope Tv, it is essential to see the TV as not a TV. That means to think of it in terms of bits is more useful for the development of TV. When TV is digitalized there will be more bits which tell you about other bits. It can give you some information about resolution, scane rate, and aspect ratio, so that TV works with full capacity. With today's technology we can control the volume, color and channels however with further TV, you will control sex, violence, and political learning. "Once we stop thinking of TV's future as only high definition and begin to build it in its most general form, b,t radiation, Tv becomes a totally diffrent medium."(p:50) One of the other advantage for education is children have a way a explaining themselves while they hike themselves. They can reach so many people, politicians, professors and schools without any identity card or real name. This is one of the main advantages of computer and Internet too. The development of the E-mail system cause many advantages to us like the 'being Asynchronous'. Because we cannot have to communicate at the same time (synchronous) by E-mail, and this may cause more free time for us and create more time for thinking about the subject. By the development of E-mail we can communicate more easily, we can reach more easily to the person whom we want to reach because there wouldn't be any secretary in their e-mail box that, prevent to communicate with the target person. While this design has been conceived to pass your voice and a picture of your face to a remote and similar machine, it could serve handsomely as a direct feed into your computer - not a teleconference but a local conference with your machine. So please, Intel, make sure that audio and video are processable, so my machine sees my face and hears my voice. On occasion, I really do want to be in a society of one. The communication of digital machines is not that much difficult as what we guess. The fact is, although changing is hard for the mechanical world, the bits are more forgiving. It would be more easy to make changing's on bits. The name of communication between machines is called 'Handshaking'. According to book one of the examples of these handshaking's could be the sounding noise and beeps of our modems while they are trying to connect.
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