drachefly wrote:Looking at the OP, it seems that his main point was that analog and digital systems complement each other.
If your main point is that trivial and obvious, do you really have a point?
Everybody who does digital work knows that analog issues are important. I've certainly had my share of problems from the wonderful world of analog; it's not fun to have a microcontroller mysteriously reset whenever you bring your finger near it, for example. I find it very difficult to believe that anybody with half a brain could dismiss analog and say that digital is all you need for anything. Therefore it's most likely that the people mentioned in the OP were referring to the way that digital technology is encroaching on what used to be analog's territory. Perhaps they'd been annoyed by analog in the past and were happy to be using it less. These theories are plausible. The idea of digital bigots who scorn anything and everything analog is not plausible.
The interesting thing is that if you're going to use the word "bigot", it is actually more applicable to someone who eschews digital technology than someone who uses it wherever possible. After all, someone who uses digital technology wherever possible still incorporates analog technology into his system; if nothing else, the inputs and outputs are usually analog. But the reverse is not true; people who avoid digital technology actually try to make totally digital-free systems.
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