How Rom ana dig i....

I meant "How Romantic..." and no, I am not inebriated at all.
Today we live in a Digital world. Yesterday was Ana-Digi & the safely forgotten past was, shamefully, very Analog!

Have you ever noticed a small grid on back-covers of many pre-recorded music CDs?
There would normally be 2 alphabets in the 3 boxes formed by the grid. A and or D, in a few fixed permutations. The 1st letter denotes the "Source Master Format", the second - "Remaster Format" & the 3rd - Final format (as on the product inside).

So, AAD will mean the original recording in Analog, re-mastered to Analog & finally "converted" to Digital on the CD. Conversion is a key word in this post :)

Techies will be able to explain "why" conversion of an analog signal (from say an LP record or a cassette-tape) rids the original, of "quality & warmth". All I know for cetain is, IT DOES.

Therefore, every old recording that we hear on a CD or watch on a DVD, has undegone Ana to Digi conversion & lost significant quality!

The high-tech circuits that juggle content between Analog & Digital domains are generally called DACs or Digital Analog Converters. Though even my next door radio-repair shop can probably make DACs, it's only a very few (like Burr Brown or Faroudja) who can claim "mastery" over the process.

We, human beings being completely non-digital in construction, require every digital content to be converted back, to analog so that we can hear them, watch them or read them etc...
Almost everything has gone digital today - in the "mid-ware" sections, where machines communicate with machines.
Any human/ animal interface & the high-tech soup of 0 & 1 must be analog!

Then why the 1234 are we going digital with such gusto? Simple because digi eliminates requirement of human intervention, therefore its capable of getting various work done in fraction of a second, there's (apparently) no bureaucarcy, no possibility of human-error etc.

Simply said, we'd rather depend more on all things digital than human or analog.
After all, does your hand-wound lovely Rolex sync it's time with the world's most accurate atomic clock in France? No? Get a digital quartz that does you idiot!
You can actually buy a few thousands at the price of a Rolex!

I am told that with the gene pools completely exposed, pharmacology will soon go fully digital & most docs can remain behind painstakingly sterlised glass walls. A few digital probes will prick your whatever & feed the "data" to the digital chips. Voila! A molecule specifically built to annihilate your specific analog anatomical abnormailty will pop out of the other end (not your's, the digital paraphernalia's).
You may soon be able to digitally program vending machines, to pop the pill into your analog annals, whichever of them is the most suitable!

Anaz...I mean amazing!

What bugs me are simple, silly questions that naturally pop up on my untrained mind.
Many of them quite analogous!
Will it be possible to have digital "romance"?
Would we be digitised to make "perfect love"?
How will we ensure that there will be no loss of "quality or warmth" during such "conversions"?
Are we going to a seamless Digi-Ana processes while creating lives (babies)?
Will we need babies? Pets? Ecosystems? Brains? Muscles?

And finally, will Wall-e be the only digital creation with an analog heart?

Do you know anyone at Burr Brown or Faroudja?