Cyborgs and the analog/digital difference
First of all, I felt very left out listening to the lectures without being able to see all the pictures. I couldn’t pay attention while looking things up at the same time, and by the time the lecture was over I could scarcely remember all of the things I had wanted to look at to begin with.
I am still confused about the analog/digital thing. I thought I understood it, but as he explained it more and more I got lost. I came away thinking that analog is the action that sets something into motion (like the physical manipulation of the bell) and the digital response is the ringing that signals something to others. That just sounds wrong. I am thinking of it more along the terms of the analog/digital thing and our televisions. All TV’s will have to be digital here soon, so I assume that to mean everyone will have to have the satellite connection that us DirectTV members have. Analog, then, would be the older connection that connects people through the cables (I can’t ever get regular TV where I live, so maybe that is all wrong). When thinking of it this way, was the professor was saying doesn’t make any sense.
And the good ol’ idea of cyborgs, which still freaks me out. I just still feel like cyborgs are something straight from science fiction and don’t really exist. I know that this is naive on my part, but I don’t consider myself a cyborg (although others may say so because I have fillings in my teeth). Weird.
So, I used to think that I understood things about technology. Apparently not so much.
