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Sigh, really? The future is "analog"? We're going to be using technology where the voltage on the wire is proportional to, i.e. analagous to, the represented signal?

I know, I know, I'm being a tiresome pedant. Words change, language marches on, a newborn's life will fade. Blah blah. I still don't like it when words change meaning under me and I want people to stop doing it.

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To add some pedantic anti-pedantry: high speed digital electronics is almost indistinguishable from analog. Once your signals are in the range hundreds of MHz or more (i.e. DDR bus), designers of digital electronics have to worry about the exact same things as the analog engineers.

I'm not an etymologist, but I don't think the word "analog" originally referred to electrical circuits when it came into use.

I think the figurative use case we've given it makes way more sense than a lot of other words we've given new connotations to recently.

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