Analog Computing
Analog computing is a significant step in the development of the digital world that we know today. Analog essentially means that it is a network or device that is self-sufficient in that it supplies its own power. Examples in class of clocks and Pascal's adding machine were landmark because they helped to accomplish difficult, often tedious tasks much faster. Another reason that analog computing was so crucial is that it was a much more advanced way to execute tasks that model real-life phenomena and situations.
Since Babbage's difference engine allowed for information to be collected, classified and analyzed much faster. In a sense this helped to bridge the gap between the senders and receivers of information, which is what computers are designed to do in the end. In some cases computers are the primary means, sometimes not.
But in any case, the computer is designed to get information from one point or person to another. In wired love, this takes the shape of a conversation between two people, in the machine stops, it goes a step further with the added dimension of the computer technology being somewhat sentient, but in either case there are senders and receivers involved that need to communicate information and because one has the info and one doesn't there is a gap between the two. The advances in analog technology help to close that gap.
These analog examples bleed into the world of networked computing because they accomplish what analog technology did beforehand, just faster and on a larger scale.
Since Babbage's difference engine allowed for information to be collected, classified and analyzed much faster. In a sense this helped to bridge the gap between the senders and receivers of information, which is what computers are designed to do in the end. In some cases computers are the primary means, sometimes not.
But in any case, the computer is designed to get information from one point or person to another. In wired love, this takes the shape of a conversation between two people, in the machine stops, it goes a step further with the added dimension of the computer technology being somewhat sentient, but in either case there are senders and receivers involved that need to communicate information and because one has the info and one doesn't there is a gap between the two. The advances in analog technology help to close that gap.
These analog examples bleed into the world of networked computing because they accomplish what analog technology did beforehand, just faster and on a larger scale.