0's and 1's

Traditional computers use bits to store information as 0's and 1's.

“We’ve actually now created something, with 0’s and 1’s, where every step we’ve made the creation, but we don’t understand the results.”

The information contained in a paper return could be squirted over a modem as a series of 0’s and 1’s, obviating the need to kill trees and race to the post office.

In the glow of that experience, the concerns of little words on a screen, themselves just a coded sequence of 0’s and 1’s, should have ceased to matter entirely.

“It only understands binary 0’s and 1’s.”