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0. … start …. 1. The analog-to-digital transition and the change in information dynamics:. Implications for informational environmentalism. Cristian Suteanu. 2. INFORMATION. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Information fl ux. = specification of change.

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  2. 1 The analog-to-digital transition and the change in information dynamics: Implications for informational environmentalism Cristian Suteanu

  3. 2 INFORMATION

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  15. 14 Information flux = specification of change. Density of information flux corresponds to the occurring change.

  16. 15 Chosen approach: • - Focusing on what information does, • not on what information is. • - Concentrating on the informational nature of change. • - Distinguishing information flux from information representation and information storage. • Identifying processes related tochanges in information flux. _

  17. 16 Difference Distinctiveness Change Identicalness Copy No information “added” Information “added” INFORMATION FLUX

  18. 17 QUESTION: How can one generate new entities and produce change with as little information flux as possible? _

  19. 18 Saving information flux SOLUTION NUMBER 1: MAKE COPIES => use similarity

  20. 19 similarity

  21. 20 Similarity or strict identicalness? Material objects cannot be identical.

  22. 21 Standardization Mass production Imitation Human solutions

  23. 22 "The book was the first mass-produced commodity" McLuhan, 1964

  24. 23 THIS TEXT IS A SET OF DISCRETE ENTITIES THIS TEXT IS A SET OF DISCRETE ENTITIES

  25. 24 THIS TEXT IS A SET OF DISCRETE ENTITIES THIS TEXT IS A SET OF DISCRETE ENTITIES

  26. 25 similar / identical

  27. 26 Saving information flux SOLUTION NUMBER 2: GO DIGITAL => use finite # of states

  28. 27 Analog system: uses a continuous range of values to represent information. Digital system: uses discrete (discontinuous) values to represent information. digitus (finger)

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  30. 29 In the material world, systems can be identical to each other if they can only have a finite number of states.

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  36. 35 Saving information flux SOLUTION NUMBER 3: MAKE digital COPIES => use identicalness

  37. 36 Entities that are truly indiscernible: - microscopic particles; - numbers.

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  46. 45 Numbers are indiscernible. So is the digital form of information.

  47. 46 Entities supporting digital information fulfill this condition: sounds, images – on CD, DVD, digital memory. _

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