One Digital Day

摘要

Although few of us can fully articulate it, we call our era the digital age for a reason. Our world is ruled, and fueled by numbers. Vast figures with strings of zeros bringing up the rear quantify the distances between the stars, the elapsed time since the Big Bang, the evolutionary development of life, the magnitude of Bill Gates' wealth, the depths of the national debt. Minuscule decimals notated with just as many zeros upfront measure the diameter of an atom, the duration of a blink, the weight of a chromosome, the wavelength of a laser beam, the reaction time of a boxer, the attention span of a tyke.