Beautiful, new, digital world
The digitalization of our everyday life cannot be stopped and the process is also not reversible. Therefore, it is important to understand what "digital" actually means.
- "Digital" derives from the Latin word "digitus", which translated means "Finger". In the technology means Digital, that something is shown with a limited number of digits.
- Digital technology processes and transfers information with the help of a limited number of digits.
- The most well-known Digital System, is the widely-used binary system. The binary system consists of only the two symbols 0 and 1. These provide the Information whether something is - or is turned off.
- Our digital everyday life consists mostly of two simple States: on or off. All digital devices are based on this System. If you consider what you can do with a simple information-processing everything, it is fascinating.
- The digital world is not as new as you might think. The first binary system was developed by the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and lived from 1646-1716.
- In common parlance, is digital used as a contrast to analogue technology: for example, analog Radio vs. digital Radio. Under the keyword are often referred to just by new technologies, such as Smartphones, computers, the Internet, etc.
- The digitization has changed our world. People today are divided into two groups. Generations born since the widespread introduction of digital technologies, are referred to as "Digital Natives" , as "digital natives".
- The older Semester, the the know pre-digital world, dubbed, in turn, as "Digital Immigrants".
- "Digital Natives" are really different from "Digital Immigrants". Brain researchers have found that, for example, the brain region that is responsible for the movement of the Thumb in charge, is increased in the case of the Former, significantly. This is the result of frequent Write of SMS. Also, the mindset is changing. Multitasking for Digital Natives a smaller Problem. For this, it is to distinguish them demonstrably more severe, the Important from the Unimportant. The flood of information in the age of the child is just too big.
Chip is of course digital!
Also mobile phones and Smartphones are digital devices. Can support everyone, but some concepts are not easy to understand. Therefore, we and in the next article with the topic of "Jailbreak" and explain what that means.
