What's between analogue and digital?

Huge improvement in technology used to seem to open new horizon in every field including art that should not be distinguished from technology sometimes. Digital which is normally considered as a new media that emploies numbers to present materials doesn't mean a break between analogue and digital, rather it is also a sort of those magnificient improvement in technology which have leaded us into the new world. As we've installed computers and similar electiric machines into daily life, almost every information is transferred into numbers especially '0' and '1'. These two numbers are also another small medium that enable us to interact with computers, and now we've taken computers as one of media that enable us to interact with the world.

With computers people can avoid the conventional hard and time-spending ways of producing, instead they can have more abilities and opportunities to produce or create. Fixed consumers now have become producers at the sametime and what they produced through digital media are no longer leaved as fixed products but have fluidity as they can be edited by others at anytime. This is maybe because this powerful new media are making not just the end products but interactive methods in which people could interact with other. The term 'user' seems to be the representative word to describe these phenomena. Users are living in the cyber world and in the cyber world like internet communities, communicative applications and virtual games all the activities by the users become products that other users would consume. These active interactions are totally because of digital technology that has strong functions to allow people easy to reach other.

"Let there be light!" said the Jewish god, and the light became one of the major media as we interact with world through lights with our eyes. Now we've got the two electric signals that would have been existed long before we realized. And with the digitization we seem to be on our first step to do or create somethinng we haven't experienced before. To someone these phenomena could mean second Renaissance, vast opportunities of creation as it's again open to human interaction, to another these would just historical reemergence amid a massive circulation of evolution in both technology and humanism in turn. And to the other this might mean a chance to guess what the next powerful media would be.

We've only thought about the media that are around ourselves. To see it different way I need to mention of light and eyes again. First, we use the light to see objects around us. If we analyse the light on the base of modern science, it is a form of wave like sound and object. When we had no eyes or ears we would interact with the surroundings only with tactual sense. And at one point we found a new medium, sound. We'd developed auditory sense since that time and then developed visual sense with light. At each point we developed ourselves in biological way using media like sound and light which all started from the form of vibration. Whenever we found new medium we'd developed new abilities to use the medium effectively and we didn't need to distinguish them as the old and new one. Currently we're using the three media all together. But as the three senses differentiate their performances in the ratio 70:13:7(visual:auditory:kinesthetic), it's obvious that the sense with the most recent media(light) is the dominant.

Things we can reconfirm through these asumptions are the fact that new media is on the extention of old media(as all the tree are form of vibration)and whenever we apply new media eventhough media gets changed, we do not just walk away from the old way of manipulating previous media. This can be explained by using two hands, two ears and two eyes for perspective observations in touching, hearing and seeing respctively. Interactivities also can be explained in this way. As we have developed our interactive organs from the way of receiving senses to sending signals and then iteratively, you can guess we are in the scene of applying new way within new media.

Now, if we see digitization as the most influential change ever recognized, we can think of how our body or mind would be accustomed to it. In short future there could exist a hero like Neo from the movie Matrix, who can control virtual world as if he were borned with the ability that might come from a evolution we would suffer. We already have seen huge gap in computer using ability between generations. I hope in the near future we can make 5 volt electricty by ourselves to manipulate certain future devices rather than having cybernetic chips within the body. If the time of the implented chip comes, maybe, following inconvenience wouldn't go further than the first time we wore clothes.

Since I believe the digitization is about outer expansion using machines sometimes I want to see what would it be like if it were not with machines. If you can say today's science, including electricity, a result of westernization I want to see what would it be like if we're living in the easternized world. Maybe we could have more chance to focus innerspace like Qi, inner force or magical power in Tibet. Who knows whether we could have telecommunicated with telepathy, shared other's vision and thought, lived without any food, had unlimited memory and teleported wherever you want to go.