You're a photon emitted from the sun. You're hurtling towards Earth at the speed of light. You hit an unsuspecting human, bounce off and head towards their spouse, who at that time is taking a picture. The photon generates current in the digital camera sensor. Now we're an electron in the sensor circuit. We meet up with a bunch of other electrons to flow to form a bit. Lots of bits assembled to make the uncompressed image. We all run through a compression algorithm, and only a tenth of us survive the process. We get processed by the phone we were taken on, converted to RF, and then sent via WDW WiFi. Connect to the WDW network, then converted to an optical signal. Sent thousands of miles - again at the speed of light - received by an optical modem, onto someone's email server. They pull it off the server and the picture is on the screen. One photon's long journey with lots of twists and turns in-between.
Interesting representations of modern technology should knock people's socks off.
Interesting representations of modern technology should knock people's socks off.
