Instead of classic analog gauges, the Jaguar XJL Supercharged employs an electronic instrument panel that would seem more at home in an Xbox 360 videogame.

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Whereas analog measurement--in the form of slide rules, micrometers and electronic meters--increasingly hit a wall because of the limitation of human beings to capture the result, digital could just keep on getting more and more accurate.

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The transition to digital image processing and storage has brought mighty companies such as Kodak to their knees and spawned a great many consumer electronic companies that have created image capture and display devices with features and capabilities that would never have been possible with analog technology.

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