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DI-GIT-AL_TECH-NO-LE-GY
A medium which allows vast amounts of
information to be compressed and used
on storage devices which are able to be
transported and preserved easily.
(Shorter Oxford English dictionary, 2007)

Digital data (i.e. music, video games, images,
videos etc.) can be stored on a device
with the ability to read digital data such as
smartphones, computers and consoles etc.
This type of data is constructed from patterns
of binary code which consist of a string of
ones and zeroes, where ones represent on,
and zeroes represent off.

ABOUT
Digital technology is commonplace in everyday life. As an example, digital technology is
currently being used to write this report with
the internet being an easy to ol in gathering
valuable information efficiently.

CHAPTER ONE: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

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