Digital

Digital is a buzzword used to describe any information delivered via a computer-based system. The underlying structure of any information on a computer is composed of binary digital code (either ones or zeros, which are digits). Practically speacking, the process of measuring everything through tiny bits of computerized information is constrasted with analog media or information produced through more physical means, such as scraping a needle across a vinyl record to create sound or unwinding spring slowly to move clock hands to track time. The Industrial Age was based largely on analog technology; the information Age’s tools are digital.