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...boundaries we have drawn around ourselves for decades are unwinding. When so many consumer products--cameras, books, music, phones--are simply delivery mechanisms for digital code, 0s and 1s, even the companies that manufacture them get confused. So Sony, maker of digital hardware and digital entertainment, finds itself peddling computers that customers can use to rip off Sony music over the Internet. The hard-and-fast physical boundary between your television and your stereo is gone because they're both your computer...
...superlative heroism of this tale lie the two key mandates of the new century: prevent physical attacks and make computers safe from intruders. As the nation girds against mortal threats, many experts fear we will overlook the danger to our information, wealth and identities, all now reduced to 0s and 1s spinning through silicon. The more we rely on computers, the more vulnerable we are to attack or failure...
Consumers rarely adopt new technology until they're sure of its benefits. Luckily for the industry, digital radio's pluses are easily explained: clearer sound and more choice. Digitalization transforms sound into the binary codes of 1s and 0s, which can be transmitted as audio waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word...
...notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine, wonderful, simple application. That was his idea. And it was big and frightening and full of implications, and it filled him up, this 18-year-old college dropout sprawled...
...important thing to remember is that bits are bits. In the digital world there are no movies or magazines or pieces of music. There are just 1s and 0s, for which we did not even have a name until 1946 when Princeton statistician John Tukey concatenated the words binary and digit into the term...