If one sets aside some minor downsides, such as famine, floods, droughts, attacks by other tribes or death by some incurable disease, life in the Neolithic age was not necessarily so bad. If you got a smart idea – say, how to capture a deer that had been seen around…
Communication and Public Authorities
The most potent driver to the establishment of civilisation has been the sharing by the members of a community of an understanding that certain utterances are associated with certain objects and concepts, all the way up to some shared intellectual values. Civilisation is preserved and enhanced from generation to generation…
Digital communication is good
Both audio and video signals can be represented as waveforms. The number of waveforms corresponding to a signal is 1 for telephone, 2 for stereo music and 3 for colour television. While it is intuitively clear that an analogue waveform can be represented to any degree of accuracy by taking…
Compressed Digital Is Better
A new technology to store 650 MByte of data on a CD had been developed based on the same basic principles used by the telco industry for their optical fibres, but the way it had been implemented had brought the price down to levels that industry could only dream of. Storing…