Take your false dichotomy and shove it -- whether any system is analog vs. digital is entirely dependent on your point of view -- it's not grounded in anything

Take your false dichotomy and shove it -- whether any system is analog vs. digital is entirely dependent on your point of view -- it's not grounded in anything concrete. Your analog vinyl record is composed of discrete molecules and thus has a hard (and very low) limit on quantization range and dynamics (it's fundamentally digital). Your digital CD has the data stored with error-correcting parity so that the foil can degrade significantly without losing anything at all -- insta-lossiness is not a fundamental characteristic of degrading digitally encoded media. The signals in your digital computer are electrical, and thus analog. You can't just say on:off::1:0 -- how would you handle disconnected circuits? So represent signals as 'high' and 'low' -- but then you have to deal with the gray area between high and low -- you don't want to have weird bugs because of a cutoff point. So you end up with a minimum of 4 'binary' states! Then the analog electricity in the wires is composed of discrete electrons slowly progressing around the circuit -- digital strikes again! It's turtles all the way down, I tell you. It's like Cocoa vs. Carbon in terms of bullshit dichotomies that get brought up constantly by otherwise intelligent people. You can cross the streams guys, and guess what? They already are in almost any case you care to look at closely.