. The digital revolution began between the late 1950s and the 1970s. It is the development of mechanical and analog to digital technology. During this time, digital computers and digital record keeping became the norm.
The introduction of digital technology also changed the way humans communicate, now through computers, cell phones, and the Internet. This revolution ushered in the information age. Digital technology is a basic process. Digitized information is recorded in binary code of combinations of digits 0 and 1, also called bits, which represent words and images.
Digital technology makes it possible to compress huge amounts of information into small storage devices that can be easily preserved and transported. Digitalization also accelerates data transmission speeds. Digital technology has transformed the way people communicate, learn and work. Telecommunications have relied on digital methods for transmitting messages.
In the early 1980s, the improvement of optical fiber allowed the development of digital communication networks. Digital technology replaced analog signals for many forms of telecommunications, in particular cellular and cable telephone systems. Analog-to-digital converters used pulse-code modulation (PCM) to convert analog data into digital signals. Compared to analog transmissions, digitized signals were less distorted and could easily be duplicated.
The digital revolution also became truly global at this time: after revolutionizing society in the developed world in the 1990s, the digital revolution spread to the masses of the developing world in the 2000s. In digital communications, for example, repeating hardware could amplify the digital signal and transmit it without loss of information in the signal. Similar to the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution, the digital revolution marked the beginning of the information age (also known as the computer age, the digital age or the age of new media). The digital revolution refers to the advancement of technology from analog electronic and mechanical devices to the digital technology available today.
While some experts say that the world has moved from the digital revolution to the information age, others believe that the digital revolution has only just begun. Largely due to the success of companies using digital technologies and advances in transmission technologies (including computer networks, Internet and digital broadcasting), countries in the developed world began to experience an economic boom throughout the 1990s. Millions of people bought home computers, Motorola created the first mobile phone in 1983 (although digital mobile phones were not sold commercially until 1999) and in 1988 the first digital camera was created. Metallic oxide semiconductor (MOS) image sensors, which began to appear in the late 1960s, led to the transition from analog to digital images and from analog to digital cameras during the 1980s and 1990s.
That was the moment when the digital revolution became truly global, and digital technologies spread to the developing world in the 2000s. The course was created with the Digital SkillUp initiative, which is the commercial name of the products created within the framework of the European Digital Academy project, funded by the European Commission with the support of the European Parliament. .
