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last updated January 14th, 2005 and is permanently morphing...
(5 Ik' (Wind) / 5 Muwan (Owl)
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digital
digital (dîj´î-tl) adjective
1.Of, relating to, or resembling a digit, especially
a finger.
2.Operated or done with the fingers: a digital
switch.
3.Having digits.
4.Expressed in digits, especially for use by a
computer.
5.Using or giving a reading in digits: a digital clock.
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noun
A key played with the finger, as on a piano.
- dig´itally adverb
Digitize
Digitize, in computer science, to convert any continuously
varying source of input, such as the lines in a drawing or a sound signal,
into a series of discrete units represented (in a computer) by the binary
digits
0
and 1. A drawing or photograph, for example, can be digitized by a scanner
that converts lines and shading into combinations of 0's and 1's by sensing
different intensities of
light
and dark. Analog-to-digital converters are commonly used to perform this
translation.
Digital
Digital, related to digits or the way they are represented.
In computing, digital is virtually synonymous with binary because the computers
familiar to most people
process
information
coded as combinations of binary digits (bits). One bit can represent at most
two values; 2 bits, four values;
8
bits, 256 values; and so on. Values that fall between two numbers are represented
as either the lower or the higher of the two. Because digital representation
represents a value as a coded number, the range of values represented can be
very wide, although the number of possible values is limited by the number of
bits used.
Digital intercourse is now the yoga of the Western world,
cultivating and nourishing relationships, a
virtual
world of telepathic linkage. The computer and the mouse will be compared in
the future to the plough when farming started. These improvements are a small
reflection of a far greater picture not only joined by an
electrical
grid but because of the new understanding of numeric
magic
and sacred geometry. Now we can peer deeper into the pool of consciousness.
It's
time
to download our consciousness while high
wired
to
infinity.
-
TIPWorld
This appetite for digital data, more and faster, can now
be recognized as a species need. The brain needs electrons and psychoactive
chemicals like the body needs oxygen. Just as body nutritionists list
our daily requirements fo vitamins, so will our brain-psyberneticians soon be
listing our daily requirements for various classes of digital information.
-
Timothy
Leary -
_Chaos
&
Cyberculture_
"The ultimate goal: Where is technology going? Its ultimate
goal is to bridge mind and matter in realtime. That is, to have no
interface,
no medium. (The medium is the message - no more message no more medium.) Just
direct thought to matter (which is already experienced in Brain) All this is
going on in very fast pace right now. If you can translate every matter into
0 1, or into a digit, every texture, every substance, every sensory input or
output, every displayform, you are dealing with a complete
etherealization
of matter. Its becoming cosubstantial with mind by digitization. Digitization
is one step beyond atomization. Atomization remains material - digitization
is spiritual atomization. Very very much the
process
of 2000 years history. Instant distribution - the
net,
huge computers, 20 million co-processors - so we have instant communication
everywhere and that is another
ethe
realization
of form and it is another transmutation of mind. Completely new associations
of consciousness are going on - so that's another aspect of this transformation.
"
-
Peter
Lamborn Wilson -
_Information
War_
"Oh, yes. Digital technology is the new religion. Just
this once let us keep
our
gods in our own hands." - Paul Joiner
The scientist John Archibald Wheeler (coiner of the term
"
black
hole") was onto this in the
'80s.
He claimed that, fundamentally, atoms are made up of of bits of information.
As he put it in a 1989 lecture, "Its are from bits." He elaborated: "Every it
— every particle, every field of
force,
even the space-
time
continuum itself — derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely
from binary choices, bits. What we call
reality
arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes/no questions."
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