Word: 0s
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What will impress telephone users aloft most, however, is the marked improvement in voice quality. The digital system, which represents and transmits information in strings of 0s and 1s that ensure accuracy, also comes equipped with a built-in computerized noise suppressor. Analog systems, which translate sound waves captured by microphones into electronic representations -- or analogs -- amplify the background noise along with the voice, and wax < and wane depending on atmospheric conditions. Using digital technology, the new phones achieve quality equal to what earthlings get calling across town, even with the faintest signal...
...design is all wrong, a relic of 19th century technology that dates back to Marconi and Bell. The future, they say, is digital. To survive in a world dominated by digital chips, digital telephones and digital compact discs, the television of the future must speak in the streams of 0s and 1s that are the language of computers...