The beginning of photography surprisingly descends from drawing, as a result of artists projecting a scene onto a canvas using what we now call a pinhole camera, of course though without the photo paper. This occurs in a box when a small hole allows in light,...

Due to the essence of digital information transfer, there will always be a loss of information when translating analogue information into digital, as the analogue form of information is ambiguous to interpretation, whereas the definition of something being digital is...

Almost everything in our modern lives seems like it’s digital, which we think of as electronics. But the definition of digital doesn’t require something to be electrical, as something being digital means that it is a piece of information in a format that has a...

A few decades into the industrial revolution, Joseph Marie Jacquard began laying the thread for the path to our digitally dominated world by patenting the Jacquard Loom (1804), which was able to take the analogue concept of weaving, and translate it into a digital and...

During this week's lesson, I recalled that when I was a kid, my dad told me how the first computers took up an entire room just to be able to perform what we would consider very simple tasks. This always amazed me, because growing up with cellphones around, I couldn't...

So far in class we have discussed the definitions of analogue and digital, and what constitutes each, as well as examples of each. One topic we discussed in relation to analogue and digital technologies and signals is how they pick up noise, and how each system of...