#15 digital

    Digital systems use discrete discontinuous values, usually but not always symbolized numerically to represent information for input, processing, transmission, storage, etc.

Data-carrying signals, delivered by electronic or optical pulses, are distinguishable as "logical 1" (pulse present and/or high) or a "logical 0" (pulse absent and/or low) are known as "digital information."

"The IBM corporation built the first programmable digital computer only after it was requested to do so by the US Defense Department during the Korean War. The result of a lack of state intervention meant that Nazi Germany lost the opportunity to build the first electronic computer in the late '30s when the Wehrmacht refused to fund Konrad Zuze, who had pioneered the use of binary code, stored programs and electronic logic gates."

~Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron

Week Four | September 25

The California Ideology, by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron