14 June 2008 - digital carpet

Digital data is correct or wrong, but analog data can wear out, gradually wrongerfying. Meanwhile we live in a quantum world which is neither digital nor analog—in which, at best, we can find ways to represent digital and analog quantities. So my question is this: Why does the real world pretend to be so analog? I want a digital carpet. To make it last a hundred times longer, add a few error-correction bits.