Hi reader! Welcome to my final post. This post will address the overall advantages and limitations of digital representations. In this post, we will explore this idea with both modern and historical contexts.
Let’s start by discussing the advantages of digitization.
The first thing I want to talk about in this post is telephones and calling. When telephones moved historically from analog to digital, there was the ability to remove excess noise. Noise can distort the message and make it difficult to understand. We can hear this idea when we listen to old telephone and telegraph messages. The digitization of telephones allowed for this background noise to be removed, which allowed us to clearly communicate messages across the world.
Speaking of clearly communicating the message, digital messages are coded as 1’s and 0’s, also known as the binary code. It’s so much simpler to decipher the difference between 1’s and 0’s when compared to a variety of numbers. Therefore, the message can be so much clearer when it becomes digital.
It was difficult for me to conceptualize the disadvantages of the digital world. Maybe this is because I haven’t known anything other than the digital world in my lifetime. From my understanding, however, the digital world runs into issues of storage. When we have storage issues, we can compromise quality to store more information. This is one of the limitations of the digital world. Similar to this, digitization requires a lot more energy to send signals quickly worldwide. In today’s age, we are already struggling with energy usage from large language models (LLM’s) like ChatGPT. This can be traced back to the digitization of our world.
Thank you for reading my posts! I have had a lot of fun writing these posts and have learned more with each post I create.