The tradeoffs of digital information transmission and storage

Storing and sending information digitally, as discrete numerical values, has real advantages over older analog methods, like more reliable long-term storage and the ability to copy and share information without gradually losing quality. It also has real downsides, though, like data being completely lost if a storage device fails, and being more vulnerable to unauthorized copying or hacking than many physical, analog records.

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