Digital and Printed media: data “Yin and Yang”
As long as we have bureaucracy we’ll need paper! Paper is our everything! I’d say that paper is the last frontier of covering your ass when someone of your colleagues is trying to rip you off. These almighty pieces of paper can do a lot of things:
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With few attached coloured papers called “passport” you suddenly appear as a potential tax payer for the government.
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Without a nice looking paper called “visa” you won’t escape from tax payments.
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Without a bachelor,master or PhD paper, getting a job will become a headache for the rest of your life.
As you can see, these shiny pieces of paper mean a lot in our daily life. But the things go worse when we start talking about contracts, deals and all this business routines. No matter how spread digital media are, after all the negotiations, you’ll still need this crappy piece of paper where you have to put few signatures. People say that’s more reliable. How knows, maybe they are right, what do you think about it?
But, anyway it’s enough about negative sides of printed media, there are some good things in it, at least for me: books. I’ve been using PC for 10 years, and I still haven’t got used to reading books from the PC. I prefer paper media here:
- It doesn’t get warmer as notebooks
- Doesn’t depend on electricity
- Fully mobile
- Easier to cover your face when you want to get some nap
To describe digital media, I can say that digital type of data storage is more practical nowadays in case of handling a lot of data: remind yourself how many square meters of space are needed to fulfil the data, for example, of 100 GB hard drive.
Thus,getting a bit geeky about the topic, printed media can be represented as secondary memory, and digital media as main memory. In order to keep a fast process time, we recall secondary memory as rare as it possible. But we can’t avoid using one of them! 
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