From the binary digit to technological convergence

  • Authors:

  • Martin Hilbert;Osvaldo Cairo

  • Affiliations:

  • Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - UN, Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, Chile;Department of Computer Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, México DF, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • ICS'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The digital paradigm began some decades ago with the introduction of the microprocessor and the manipulation of information. The progresses of science and technology have been fantastic since those years, and due to these tremendous advances, the digital paradigm is in transitions today. Whereas the omnipresent importance of information for physical and living systems is not neglected, it is claimed that recent technological advances introduced a qualitative and quantitative change in the nature of how we handle information, thus placing these processes at the forefront of human activities. In this paper, we present a renovated and updated overview of the scope of the digital paradigm. We focus on the old ideas that make it possible, but also in the new ones that will show the new road.