Blown to Bits: Chapter 1

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1. What is a bit and what does it mean to say that "it's all just bits"? (Koan
A bit is what data is made up of. What Koan means by “it’s all bits” is that everything
that is data is made in bits. From pictures to applications, it uses bits to process the
image or information
2. Describe, in your own words, Moore's Law.
Moore’s Law is the observation of the growth rate of bit storage. Moors observed an
exponential growth every few years.
3. Someone offers you a summer job and offers you two pay rates: (1) $10 per
hour for 40 hours per week for 30 days or (2) One cent on day 1, two cents and
day two, four cents on day three and on (doubling each day) for 30 days. If you
were trying to make as much money as possible in 30 days, which pay rate
would you choose? What does this illustrate?
Offer 2 would generate me more money due to its exponential rate of doubling the
previous day’s amount. This illustrates the exponential growth of information.
4. Give an example of how the digital explosion is "neither good nor bad" but
has both positive and negative implications.

Digital explosion is “neither good nor bad” because the realm of bits contains bad
and good things. The sharing of data is example of neither good nor bad. Sending
a image to your relatives through social media is a good implication, whereas leaking
secret information would be a bad implication.

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