Learning Objective 3
One of my favorite moments of this class was when we played a game trying to guess if things were digital or analog. At first glance, it might sound like an easy game, but it was trickier than it looked. Something that is modern is not always digital, and something that is considered old can still be digital.
To reframe this in a language that we understand, we need to ask ourselves if the thing is binary or if it exists on a continuous spectrum. For example, early counting systems could be considered digital because they separated information into individual marks or values. On the other hand, something like a natural sound wave is not digital because it is continuous.
This little game made me realize that digital is more about how information is represented rather than just being about computers. I liked seeing the evolution of digitalization and how we are moving more and more toward the digital world as time goes by.