- "The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access" Graheme Weinbren
- Korean Artist Nam June Paik 1963 installation Random Access (audio tape on a wall)
- "Random access Computing, noun. the process of transferring information to or from memory in which every memory location can be accessed directly rather than being accessed in a fixed sequence : [as adj. ] random-access programming."
- Basis for processing and assembling information. Paradigm of controlled randomness. Too much freedom can have a negative effort, boundaries necessary for understanding
RANDOM infinite possibilities, infinite combinations of 1 and 0
ACCESS opportunity, availability, interactivity, a path through the numbers which is chosen by the recipient, control, choice
- The contrast, tension between the two, is at the heart of what digital is and why it is difficult to define. The tension between the possibility of knowledge and the recipients choice (question of who welds the choice?)
BITS are...
- either in the state of on or off, 1 or 0 the smallest particle in the DNA of information
- can be combined infinitely to represent anything
- able to deliver informationable to move at the speed of lightweightless
- without physical boundariesare as hard to price as knowledge and that value varies according to who is using them and how
- able to be mixed up and rearranged hence 'multimedia'
- able to contain information about other bits hence 'headers'
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