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In a narrow sense, analog does also contain more information than digital. The sweep of the second hand defines every possible infinitesimal unit of time. But for most of us that is not the appeal of analog. After all, the extra information is of no use. It whizzes by too...
That is the beauty of analog. Because -- like its linguistic companion, the analogy -- it tries to reproduce the contour of reality. It lives in context. There is a before and an after. The digital watch gives you precision, but leaves you wondering where you are. Analog is a return to...
Digital gives you "just the facts, ma'am." And digested. Digital arbitrarily cuts up the continuum of information into bite-size bits, selects pieces and presents them back glued together to simulate the original continuum. That makes for efficiency. Because numbers can be instantly checked for errors and instantly re...
The digital watch tells you the time. It does not represent it. The digital watch may be going the way of the dodo because all that fact makes for too much bulk and too little lift.
Or to put it another way: analog is to digital as rhyme is to reason. Try putting that in digital form.