What Connects Digital and Technology? More Than You Think
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There is a close connection between the digital economy and digital technology. The digital economy refers to an economic form based on digital technology, with digital information as the main production factor and transaction medium. It encompasses activities in digital industries, digital commerce, and digital finance. Digital technology is the foundation and tool for realizing the digital economy.

What is Digital Technology?
"Digital technology" was not created, but rather emerged in response to market demands as the internet evolved. Academically speaking, it is a technology that can convert various types of information (regardless of whether the information carrier is graphics, text, sound, video, or others) into a language that computers can recognize for processing, storage, analysis, and transmission.
From the era of portal websites to the era of search engines, then to the era of mobile social networks, and now to today's era of self-media, digitization has long been present in enterprise systems. When enterprises grow to a certain size, they gradually establish management systems, including front-end, data centers, information systems, and back-end systems. Some enterprises even customize their systems to be open-source or semi-open-source to allow for the addition of corresponding modules as the enterprise develops. This is the initial form of digitization.

So what specific technologies are included in digital technology?
It mainly includes big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and 5G technologies. Their functional relationships are as follows: If big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain technologies achieve technological integration and empower various industries, then with the increase in users, the results will grow exponentially. The effect brought about by this digital marketing model has led major internet companies to set the development and application of digital technology as their next corporate strategic goal, vying to be the first to create a multi-dimensional network organic ecosystem in this blue ocean.
Technical Characteristics
- Generally, binary is used. Therefore, any component with two stable states can be used to represent binary (e.g., "high level" and "low level"). Thus, its basic unit circuit is simple, and the accuracy requirements for each component in the circuit are not very strict, allowing for a large dispersion of component parameters, as long as two distinct states can be distinguished. This characteristic is very advantageous for realizing the integration of digital circuits.
- Strong anti-interference capability and high precision. Because digital technology transmits, processes, and handles binary information, it is not easily affected by external interference, thus exhibiting strong anti-interference capability. Furthermore, it can improve precision by increasing the number of bits in the binary numbers.
- Digital signals are easy to store for long periods, enabling the preservation of a large amount of valuable information resources.
- They offer good confidentiality; encryption can be performed in digital technology to make valuable information resources difficult to steal.
- They are highly versatile; standardized logic components can be used to construct various digital systems.