by admin | May 6, 2025 | Process of Digitization, Uncategorized
Today, there is a constant switch to make something digitalized. Information has moved from word of mouth to being stored inside enormous online databases for nearly anyone to access. We now communicate in the digital world using online chat software, email, sending...
by admin | May 6, 2025 | Digital vs Not Digital, Uncategorized
DigitalWhen we say information is digital, we mean it has been translated into a long stream of exact numerical snapshots. These can be described as tiny “all‑or‑nothing” pulses that a computer understands as 1 s and 0 s. Imagine a song: a microphone samples the air...
by admin | May 4, 2025 | Digital Representation
The world is almost entirely digital. We have come a long way from very basic technology including the cotton gin to the Jacquard Loom all the way to the first computers. Today, there is an infinite amount of digital devices including smartphones, laptops, tablets,...
by admin | May 3, 2025 | Creative Process, Uncategorized
The change from analog to digital started when engineers saw that using simple “on” and “off” signals—just 0s and 1s—could dodge many problems of smooth analog waves, like hiss and signal loss. Early tools such as pulse‑code phone lines and the tiny transistor made it...
by admin | Mar 18, 2025 | Contrasting digital representation, Learning Objectives, Uncategorized
I entered this prompt using CoPilot on 3/18/25: “Compare the problems for the Jacquard loom with the problems with the telegraph. Are the problems for Project Starline more like those for the Jacquard loom or those for the telegraph?” This is a fascinating...
