Sometimes we create data without even realizing it — sending a text message, posting a photo on Instagram or just browsing through various websites To put a number on it, in 2020, people generated 2.5 ...

As far back as the year 2000, a bookstore on Charing Cross Road in central London bore a sign that said "Any Amount of Books." These days one often hears people conflate not only "amount" and "number" ...

Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...

Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are perceiving ...

For engineers, the question of whether to store information in analog or discrete form is easy to answer. Discrete data storage has clear advantages, not least of which is that it is much more robust ...

Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...