The Importance of Digital Thinking

In a digital camera, you have a translation of the fluctuating material that's to be represented into a representation which is created. So in that sense, there's a fractal quality to the traditional photographic image where the crystals are interwoven and interlocked with one another in this very strange way. What we're calling digital doesn't have to be literally a digital thing like a digital computer or whatnot. And so I can give you an example which is typologies. The characteristic form of intellectual work, especially characteristic of libraries, of library science. You want to find something in that enormous haystack? Okay, you want to find your little needle, the thing you're looking for

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