Digital Noise

From this session I see digital noise interpreted in several ways. Claude Shannon looked at the increasing complexity of the telephone system and solved a lot of the issues that came with this by essentially introducing the digital system we now use today.

Noise affects a signal in-between the source and the recover, affecting the purity of the original signal. In a sense noise is the enemy of transporting information and Shannon, as an engineer really wanted to increase the efficiency of the telephone system, so reducing noise came as a by product of this.

This is considering more obvious digital noise, but there is also noise from more abstract sources. Data is kept intact from place to place by checking the data at regular intervals to see that it is the same, but people create noise too. So online you’ll receive ‘noise’ from the millions of users of a website for example. This noise is the human part of the Internet, and to try and remove it would make the Internet an instantly sterile place. Wading though the noise may be annoying, but at times it can be considered fun. If anything it means you’ll find things you never expected

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