Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants.

Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997.

Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the \digital divide\ between the rich countries and the poor countries.

Freedom can be more popular in the digital age.

Freedom may come to an end in the digital age.

Freedom's challenge in the digital age is a serious topic.

It's actually color, and it's actually digital.

Now similar concerns ares being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital age.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded--the digital himalaya project and the world oral literature project--Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generation.

Painters, digital media experts, photographers, booking agents and promoters are hired to sell tickets and promote the event.

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

The digital age cannot destroy it.

To enjoy the convenience of digital payment, many senior citizens started to use smart phones.

Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.

Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

Still, gamification only stands to become more popular, he says, as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games.

It might mean monitoring employee productivity on a digital leaderboard and offering prizes to the winners, or giving employees digital badges or stars for completing certain activities.

In a Los Angeles Times article, one employee referred to the board as a digital whip.

Gamification does not have to be digital.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could help ease many of these shortcomings.

But there are a few pilot schools already making the transition（过渡）over to digital books

Digital textbooks are not going to catch on, says Inkling CEO Matt Maclnnis as he's giving me a demo（演示）over coffee.

What I mean by that is the current perspective of the digital textbook is it's an exact copy of the print book

If that's how we're defining digital textbooks, there's no hope of that becoming a mainstream product.

What does the author say about digital textbooks

Inkling CEO Matt Maclnnis explains that the problem with Course Smart's current digital textbooks is that they have to be revised repeatedly.

One additional advantage of the interactive digital textbook is that students can download relevant critical comments

One of the challenges to build an interactive digital textbook from the ground up is that is takes a great deal of manpower.

One problem for students to replace traditional textbooks with interactive digital ones is the high cost of the hardware

According to the author, whether digital textbooks will catch on still remains to be seen.

Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution

Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business.

Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditiona

Can Digital Textbook Truly Replace the Print Kind?

He repeatedly took an existing but half-formed idea－the mouse-driven computer, the digital music player, the smartphone, the tablet computer（平板电脑）－and showed the rest of the industry how to do it properly.

I try to make things as inexpensive as possible, said Hunt, who uses free digital textbooks for his classes but designs his own curriculum.

A Pearson spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that digital materials are less expensive and a good investment that offer new features, like audio texts, personalized knowledge checks and expert videos.

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 32 elements: class, sex, and generation .

As universities go digital, students are complaining of a new hit to their finances that's replacing—and sometimes joining—expensive textbooks: pricey online access codes that are required to complete coursework and submit assignments.

But because it's all digital it eliminates the used book market and eliminates any sharing and because homework and tests are through an access code, it eliminates any ability to opt out.

But critics say the digital access codes represent the same profit-seeking ethos (观念) of the textbook business, and are even harder for students to opt out of.

David Hunt, an associate professor in sociology at Augusta University, which has rolled out digital textbooks across its math and psychology departments, told BuzzFeed News that he understands the utility of using systems that require access codes.

Digital learning systems now charge students for access codes needed to complete coursework, take quizzes, and turn in homework.

highlighting, Post-It notes, dog-ears and other techniques allow for further customization that students value in print books over digital forms of books.

In fact, the more information flows throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between information haves and information have-nots, leading to digital divide .

In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.

Its digital course materials save students up to 60% compared to traditional printed textbooks, the company added.

McGraw Hill, which controls 21% of the higher education market, reported in March that its digital content sales exceeded print sales for the first time in 2015.

That's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.

Werbach gives the example of several disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

with regard to sex, digital divide exists between men and women.

The advancement of digital technology.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

The popularization of digital video recorders has caused advertisers to worry that their commercials will be skipped.

It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years, says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

Flexibility resulting from the use of digital devices benefits employers instead of employees.

But what is certain is that, in some way or other, Google's entrance into digital book selling will have a significant impact on the book world in the years to come.

Google's entrance into digital book selling will tremendously change the world's book market in the future

\If they are anywhere near worth their salt as engineers, I bet they are rethinking their threat model as we speak,\ said Jonathan Zdziarski, a digital expert who studies the iPhone and its vulnerabilities.

A quarter of students report that their use of digital devices during class causes their grades to suffer .

Andy Holder—the chief economist at The Bank of England—suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency.

At the same time, we recognize that children might have an interest in entering adulthood free to create their own digital footprint.

Because previous research has shown that people with high intellectual abilities are better at filtering out distractions, researchers believed students with high ACT scores would not show a significant decrease in performance due to their use of digital

Both bus tours forbade the use of cell phones but one tour provided digital cameras and encouraged people to take photos.

For example, when information is uploaded to a repository,a digital object identifier is assigned.

In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.

Many successful virtual companies provide digital services, such as financial transactions, in the case of PayPal, or means of communication, as Skype does.

One 2013 study of college students found that 80% of students use their phones or laptops during class, with the average student checking their digital device 11 times in a typical class.

Professor sometimes implement policies designed to minimize students' use of digital devices, and some instructors even confiscate tablets and phones.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository 库, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has o

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

They include photos repurposed for inappropriate or illegal means, identity theft, embarrassment, bullying by peers or digital kidnapping.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

Because representative government presupposes an informed citizenry, the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history and government, particularly American history and American government; and encourages the use of new digital technologies.

They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, rifling through a suspect’s purse.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

Americans should take steps to protect their digital privacy.

Getting the print edition seven days a week costs $500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.

Young people who are digital natives are indeed becoming more skillful at separating fact from fiction in cyberspace.

A long struggle will be needed to avoid a future of digital feudalism.

\Tech is designed to really suck you in,\ says Jenny Radesky in her study of digital play, \and digital products are there to promote maximal engagement.\

At the same time, the European Union, Spain, Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes.

Because representative government presupposes an informed citizenry, the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history and government, particularly American history and American government; and encourages the use of new digital technologies

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization's work, but France's digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data, and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services.

For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy.

In addition, new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of equities, quicker use of information, and thus shortens attention spans in financial markers.

In February the FTC and the digital Advertising Alliance agreed that the industry would get cracking on responding to DNT requests.

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data?

Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new person

That would be the people who buy advertising from them-and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.

The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed support for the measure, and it could go into effect within the next few weeks.

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

The product they're selling is data, and we, the users, convert our lives to data for the benefit of the digital giants.

The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone—a vast storehouse of digital information—is similar to, say, going through a suspect's purse.

This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MTI's Center for Digital Business.

Today we live in a world where GPS systems, digital maps, and other navigation apps are available on our smart phones.