Why the Forever Push for Digitalia

Why the Forever Push for Digitalia

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Reinette Senums Foghorn Express substack —

“Wash DC VERIZON no longer offers true “POTS” (Plain Old Telephone Service) copper-wire “land lines” — 100% is now digital via optical fiber. Segue — I’ve been looking back into the long push for “digitalia” in all things and find the trail via Jesu in Rome back to Greeks’ atomicity concepts. Once things are quantized, they may be quantified, stored, counted, controlled. The infinity inherent in analog systems confounds such control. NIST has been busy busy redefining base units such as meter, kilogram, second — instead of a stick, a weight, and the swing of a pendulum, the base units are now (since recently) all based on the number of vibrations of Cesium-137, further removing measurement from humanity and into digitalia. In true “slippery slope” fashion, not long after the “redefinition” of the second, a “correction” was imposed by NIST, to adjust for an anomalous ‘time slip’ of one-second in a quadrillion years — They are literally already screwing around with base definition of time, and not one single peep of caution or warning beyond mine have I seen anywhere online.”

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