This has led to a great increase in the amount of genealogical information that has been converted from analog original sources to digital sources available for on-line searching and access.

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Moreover, with digital you can also move that information around without losing it in the surrounding noise, as this often happens with an analog signal.

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The professional media and entertainment industry has undergone a massive transformation over the last 15 years, from an analog world defined largely by video tape and film to one defined by digital formats and metadata (information about the video content and its production history).

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If you were looking for a Kayak analog, it might actually be privately held Hipmunk, which has a super cool graphic interface that aggregates travel information from multiple sites.

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