“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”
Charles Franklin Kettering: homeandoffice.hp.com

“The digital term refers to the way computers do operations: counting digits.”
www.ii.uam.es

“ Digital technology uses a binary code (the digits 0 and 1) to transmit images and sounds, which is exactly how your computer operates. Since images and sounds are reproduced via digital codes, each reproduction is just as crisp and clear as the original.” www.upn44.tv

“ Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive. Positive is expressed or represented by the number 1 and non-positive by the number 0. Thus data transmitted or stored with digital technology is expressed as a string of 0’s and 1’s. Each of these state digits is referred to as a binary digit (and a string of bits that a computer can address individually as a group is a byte).

Prior to digital technology, electronic transmission was limited to analog technology, which conveys data as electronic signals of varying frequency or amplitude that are added to carrier waves of a given frequency. Broadcast on phone transmission has conventionally used analog technology.

Digital technology is primarily used with new physical communications media,
such as satellite and fiber optic transmission. A modem is used to convert the digital information in your computer to analog signals for your phone line and to convert analog phone signals to digital information for you computer.” www.whatis.techtarget.com

“Digital information is data that are structured and manipulated, stored and networked, subsidized and sold. A shared vocabulary is the key element in the development of a community of practice and a shared vision of the future among those of us who have responsibility to shepherd the nation’s cultural resources.” www.nedcc.org

“The FCC has mandated that all public broadcasting stations convert to DIGITAL TELEVISION by the year 2003.”

Entertainment: Digital technology + entertainment = true freedom of expression. For example, the ability to choose the music you like best, download it into your computer, alter or modify it, organize it, and play it almost anywhere – that’s real creative control!

Being “Digital”: According to the Media Arts and Sciences School at MIT, digital technologies will “profoundly change how we express ourselves, how we communicate with each other and how we perceive, think about and interact with our world.” www.homeandoffice.hp.com

“ Digital technology converts analog data into binary digits (O’s and 1’s) for better manipulation and transportation. Digital technology contributes to information exchange by transmitting information faster and dramatically reducing the costs of managing and communicating information. Digital technology allows electronic devices to be smaller, lighter, and cheaper.

If the 20th Century represented the birth of digital technology, the 21st Century will represent its maturation. Going beyond the technological arena, digital technology influences not only social systems, but also the way of life for individuals. It breaks down the traditional hierarchical structure of society and gives each person more of an equal role. As societies become more linked through information networks, the new phenomenon called the “Digital Economy” emerges.” www.samsung.com/corporate/technology

Astonishing improvements in computer performance and software technology have made digital technology the standard for all types of communicating, information processing, storage and retrieval – sound, vision, text and video – and for control and management of systems and machines” www.storyboard.com

“Digital technology is revolutionizing the traditional concepts of preservation and access in library and archive communities. Although traditional preservation methods have ensured the longevity of endangered research materials, it has sometimes been at the cost of reduced access. With digital technology, images are used to reproduce rare items, allowing for virtually universal copying, distribution, and access.” www.oclc.org, www.oce.nysed.gov