This question must be revisited since we are in the business of selling atoms. Digital sells and digital costs, too. Generating bits, storing them over cloud and transmitting them to each user — these are some of those costs. — So far as I can see, the telecom provider has nothing to gain by sending fewer bits back and forth between their servers. Telecommunications companies currently charge users per second or per bit. The type of data, or who is accessing it, has no bearing on this charge.

Last week, we mused on how digital technology will fundamentally transform the way we think about, arrange, and design our homes. We are one step closer to that future now. — This new technology from Swedish furniture company, IKEA will either eliminate the need for such antiquated equipment as measuring tapes or, at the very least, dispel any last concerns that the couch we just purchased will truly fit in our now lived-in living room.

The tête-à-tête of the colours? The camaraderie of the space with shapes? The sublime user interaction? Or is it something more enigmatic? A particular something. Unnamable, but not inexplicable. — Cut to bandwidth. (Yes. Bandwidth, from the previous episode of this series, batting the streaks.) Bandwidth and computation have a complex relationship. In the vast majority of apps we use today, its trade-off is obvious. Zoom is where we do our job, while TikTok and Instagram are where we get…

To sum it up: Data. — Bandwidth is quantified as the amount of data transferred per unit of time. Typically, it is measured in bits per second. Thirty years ago, data was “transported” through physical media like the postal service. …

Why is AutoCAD a dumb software? — An AutoCAD Google chatroom from July 16, 1998, 12:30:00 P.M., reads as follows: ‘Why can’t the leading publisher of CAD software on the planet improve the most basic elements of its interface? There are plenty of examples out there to copy that do a far better job. Why can’t AutoCAD…

One startup has gone so far as to claim that they can ‘build you the house of your dreams without an architect.’ So, where are we now? — As cities grow, new tools emerge to transform how architects, contractors, and users envision and create the built environment. The ancestral house in your village would be greener and more open than the 3 BHK you live in now (without a garden). The building data and codes are becoming more…

This is a question that has different answers for different people. — ‘It is no longer big beating the small, but the fast beating the slow.’ We live in a time when experts of digital technologies are attempting to push the boundaries of technology beyond our wildest dreams. The digital world has shown us a new face of technology. …

Computer data is compressed from online banking to text messages. — When a single quote compresses a lot in a single line — ‘The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.’ The essence of this article is the essence of the quote itself. There has been significant growth in the…

At a time when planning any excursion is a pipe dream, technology can relieve our travel itch. — Atoms and matter are analogous to digital output. Look at a smooth continuous surface through a microscope. What do you see? Vacuum. Now, zoom into this smooth image. What you will find before you are single-colour squares or pixels. Each colour represents a value from the 8-bit or 16-bit sequences…