Beware not to confuse "digital" with "electronical" or "mechanical". My MX is mechanical, an MZ-S is electronical, but none of them are digital.
I guess a 100% digital automobile for instance would have a driving software running on and replacing the usual tasks of the driver (turning, accelerating, braking...), while connecting to an online database to get appropriate road and GPS info. While in modern cars some parts may be digital (GPS assistance), most of the remaining parts are mechanical (engines) and/or electronical (braking or turning assistance). While mechanical/electronical machines reduces our needs of pure human work (like in industry or farming) digital avoids us to think and to take decisions. Therefore I think a huge difference is to be stated between those terms. And those against digital maybe the proud defenders of mechanical and electronical machines ! If washing machines were to become digital, loaded with a software that would choose what water temperature to select depending on the type of clothes you put in, won't you prefer selecting the appropriate program by yourself ? just my 2.000054 euro cents on the topic... >I guess we should give up automobiles, farm machinery, assembly lines and all >automation so we can go back to carving horse carts out of wood. > >Alan Chan wrote: > >> I am native I know. But digital does not make things better. Just look at >> the unemployment rate all over the world due to computing automation. As far >> as I can see, computers are here to take over our jobs. :( >
