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19 februari 2011

Hilbert and López surveyed 60 categories of analog and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007, and the results reflect our near complete transition from the analog to the digital age. Over the course of their research, they started to home in on the tipping point. “In the year 2000, 75 percent of all information was still in analog format, mainly analog video cassettes (like VHS),” Hilbert said, “and in 2007, 94 percent of our global technological memory consisted of digital bits and bytes. This is nothing more than a blink of an eye in historical perspectives.” The year when digital information became dominant was 2002, they estimated.

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