Analog merely means that it's non-digital, for
the task it ensures or the date it can cope with, when processing numbers it is
not done electronically, and the data is done in signal wave that stores in
continual wave on to store on a physical texture. So analog technology does not exist only for doing
the basic measurement or dealing with the simple dials and pointers, like many
people believe that is the main function for analog technology. Some examples
for analog technology are an outdated camera and old-school cassette recorder.
With the analog technology camera the user can capture the picture on the
transparent plastic film. So when the film is developed, it's will be used to
print an image of the subject took a photograph of. Making it that the image
the users capture is a analog for the subject that was taken a picture of was a
record of the user
has a copy of capture subject. For the cassette recorder, it is making a
recording of the audio of the subject that is begin recorded, so it is not involved
with digital matter making it analog related. After the recording with the cassette, on the
plastic reel tape, it will leave pools of magnetized. .
Digital technology is an electronic that
can store high amounts of data and memory, a digital
signal that does not get damage with time, and there is never
information loss due to variances in equipment. Also, Digital tech is records in analog signal full of
numbers called binary code which is a mixture of the digits 0 and 1 that are
bits. With the Binary code, it is able to define the many 1 and 0 into many items
like words, images, and many others. Because, there are large amounts of date
that can be dense down with a digital signal, that uses some
property like the voltage, to communicate a single bit of information.
An example of a medium for digital technology are the cellphones, for they can transmit and receive calls by transfiguring
the person's voice into binary code and then sending the 1’s and 0’s from one
location to another in the form of radio waves.
Another example of digital technology is the computer, for the entire
computer is done binary code. When a person is typing on their PC a message of
numbers is begin sent to the motherboard to convert the binary numbers to the
letters the person is typing out.
The difference in digital and analog
technology is that analog technology transmits signals that are done by
electronic pulses, and digital technology transmits a binary code of 0's and 1s.
Also, digital technology is able to pack more binary code information into the
same amount of space as an analog, so in other worlds, digital is able to get more
information without using more date, and it is able to store date on more formats
than analogy’s records and tapes, for analogy can only record data from point
to point in a linearly line, and it reads it by doing a scan on 1’s and 0’s
that are printed on the device. However, analog is more accurate with its date
than digital because digital technology offers only guesstimate of information,
plus analog is easier to work with, and it is cheaper compared to digital version.
Many people of the public knew that
a transition from analog to digital was bond to come. But after many years of
analogy battling with digital technology, the binary code system won over the signal
waves around the 20th century since digital technology was becoming the
next big thing. This movement mainly happen with the high demands beginning of
digital technology mediums like DVDs, CDs, computers, internet, and many
others, and as the digital technology got better more demand was place on
digital and leaving analogy obsoleted. Also, the public likes digital over analogy
was when the information is digital, computer have a function
where computer can edit the data and makes an effect that were never imaginable
with analog media. Digital media is non-linear, which means it can be edited or
played back starting at any point, which can be a huge timesaver compared to
working with tape. Digital information furthermore does not deplete with repeated
use like tapes or records will do, and that made digital mediums have better
longevity than analogy mediums. Also, analog technology main problem was
only a small amount of date could be saved on tapes and records.
