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CORE 456
This week in class. . .
Digitization
When discussing the developement of the phone in class we spoke about how unclear the voice was initially. This is because within the phone first development there wasn’t a great way to cut out the noise. There were to many intereferences when the sound traveled digitally. However, at its beginning, no one was bothered by the noise over the phone because it was such a marvelous new form of quick communication. Furthermore, it cut out theneed to understand morse code like with the telegraph. This made communication far easier. If we trace back even further to the developement of language there was also a similar start. Although untracable, we can say that prior to language communication must have been very difficult. The developement of language cut out this difficulty but it also had its own noise. We can assume at its first developement there was less conformity, leading to different pronounciations and difficulty understanding, noise. We see this process and its diffculties quite often as we look at the digitization of society.
This directly correlates to learning objective number 5 which states, “demonstrate the process of digitization as it applies to text and sound, including the tradeoffs that must be considered in the process”. We see in the digitization of all things there there are tradeoffs and that there is always obscurity when it comes to its development. However, when we look at the tradeoffs with the phone, language, telegraph, and so many more, there is such a huge immediate benefit to society that this noise is disregarded. Of course, engineers will always seek to improve the systems and be rid of noise, but throughout history the public has been so astonished that it is ignored.