The Old Surpasses The New?

It came to my mind the other day when I saw one of my Japanese boss using an old analog oscilloscope(its what we use to measure signals) to investigate a problem we are facing at work, instead of a RM10k digital oscilloscope..... I noticed that the old oscilloscope had capabilities to zoom in to the signal in ways that I couldn't imagine! And I realised, that perhaps there is a reason why people out there today prefer analog to digital, why people prefer using the single effect pedals that multi effects (okay,less relevant but...actually there is lah), why tapes are old record players have better sound qualities than CDs.

There's the question of sampling rate yes? Sampling is one of the processes involved in converting analog to digital. To briefly explain, lets say you have a sinusoidal wave, with a frequency of 1 Hz.(1 Hz is equivalent of one full cycle in one second). You sample it at the rate of 2Hz sampling rate, that means at half a cycle, it samples the value of the waveform..or in other words, determine the value of the waveform at the time. What about during the rest of the cycle, or in between the sampling rates, what happens to the data? Exactly my point, we lose some of the real deal people. We sacrifice some points of the matter in order to achieve our goal easily.Or in the digital world, to create a fast easier solution, by eliminating the "supposed-to-be" redundancy. But my question now is, can we really eliminate them?

I see the relativity of this in our lives. We the younger generations now rely a little too much on new technology in order to achieve our goals, sometimes (maybe a little too much) that we lose sight on maybe what's important to us. We discard what we thought is irrelevant, but maybe..just maybe it could be a use to us perhaps even save us?

You could try and see the scenario of moral values perhaps? How people nowadays take the "shortcut" through the moral value aspect for a bigger gain, seeing only the bigger picture but what about the small little detail that could affect us all?Or maybe your children?Or even our country? The small little detail that could maybe increase our quality of life, our conscience, our mental health maybe. Who knows.

I'm just rambling, I just wanted to write this out because it came to my head when I was looking at my Jap boss troubleshooting at work and realised how the old, could surpass the new.