The Digital Age

In the digital age, people communicate using ones and zeros. Computers flipping binary bits back and forth bring us the internet, video games, spreadsheets, and presentations. In this way, nearly everything can be represented using only two symbols; one and zero, light and dark, high and low. This is in stark contrast to the moral ambiguity that the digital age has helped to usher in. The world preaches relative morality; whatever you believe is right actually is right. Imagine trying to send a message in the digital version of this world, where one and zero are not absolutely defined, but rather are whatever the sender wants them to be. The message would have no meaning to the receiver, since his or her definition of one and zero is completely different. The entirety of modern computing is based on a definition that is widely accepted by everyone. Without this, modern computing could not exist, as it would have no meaning. Likewise, without moral absolutes, life itself can have no inherent meaning.