Are We Headed For A Digital Age?

[ChristisKing]

I did a thread like this on one of my first message boards as an adult. Do you think that since technology is such a big part of our lives and is basically taking over the world that eventually everything will be digital?

 

[Thunk]

All you see is people with their nose in their phone...EVEN WHILE DRIVING!

People with their nose in their phone walk right into traffic and die.

People with their nose in their phone walk right infront of a train and die.

People with their nose in their phone walk right off a cliff and die.

 

[toobfreak]

Are We Headed For A Digital Age?​

Honey, we have been heading for a digital age since about 1985.
While analog has certain advantages, digital has many others and
makes innumerable things possible necessary to the modern world.

Now, I'll let you stew on that thought for about 12 seconds.
Or in Base 2, amounts to about 1100.

 

[Thunk]

Now, I'll let you stew on that thought for about 12 seconds.
Or in Base 2, amounts to about 1100.

There are 10 types of people in the world.

Those who read binary...and those who don't.

 

[toobfreak]

There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who read binary...and those who don't.

That is a pretty black or white, up or down, yes or no, on or off point of view.

 

[Thunk]

That is a pretty black or white, up or down, yes or no, on or off point of view.

Welp, that could be true...

or false

 

[toobfreak]

Welp, that could be true...
or false

No, we cannot accept any floating bits out there. They must all either be rounded up or down to the next most significant bit.
Allowing for any extraneous quantizational errors in my chinese-built A/D convertors.

 

[Thunk]

No, we cannot accept any floating bits out there.

Sure we can. That's why the Good Lord created Bit Heaven. That's where all good superfluous bits go when the program terminates.

 

[Thunk]

in my chinese-built A/D convertors.

You have an abacus?

 

[toobfreak]

Sure we can. That's why the Good Lord created Bit Heaven.

Is that anything like heavenly bits?

That's where all good superfluous bits go when the program terminates.\

There are no superfluous bits. Only bits not recognized in the PAM signal, or Sally or Lucy or Peg.

 

[toobfreak]

You have an abacus?

Yes, I use a 16-bit ladder Abacus.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I did a thread like this on one of my first message boards as an adult. Do you think that since technology is such a big part of our lives and is basically taking over the world that eventually everything will be digital?

What does the question mean "everything"? Digital electronics has been a part of our lives since the early 1970s approx. We are (and have been for years) living in a digital age already.

 

[ReinyDays]

Honey, we have been heading for a digital age since about 1985.
While analog has certain advantages, digital has many others and
makes innumerable things possible necessary to the modern world.

Now, I'll let you stew on that thought for about 12 seconds.
Or in Base 2, amounts to about 1100.

That's 30 in dog-lover's base four ... and gardening hasn't been digitized either ...

 

[ChristisKing]

What does the question mean "everything"? Digital electronics has been a part of our lives since the early 1970s approx. We are (and have been for years) living in a digital age already.

Like everything being computerized and automatic.

 

[ChristisKing]

Looks like dogs are even being replaced. How stupid.

 

[toobfreak]

That's 30 in dog-lover's base four ...

I'm not familiar with Base 4.

and gardening hasn't been digitized either ...

Oh yeah? Ever hear of a dicotyledon?

 

[ChristisKing]

This however could be very useful.

 

[Moonglow]

Honey, we have been heading for a digital age since about 1985.
While analog has certain advantages, digital has many others and
makes innumerable things possible necessary to the modern world.

Now, I'll let you stew on that thought for about 12 seconds.
Or in Base 2, amounts to about 1100.

Huzzah for solid-state!

 

[Moonglow]

I'm not familiar with Base 4.


Oh yeah? Ever hear of a dicotyledon?

Castor bean..

 

[ReinyDays]

I'm not familiar with Base 4.


Oh yeah? Ever hear of a dicotyledon?

Sister clade to the Coontails ...