Editing Digitality (section)

==In the 21st century==
Digital technology plays an important role in 21st century life. In the United States, nearly two-thirds of people own [[smartphone]]s.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/us-smartphone-use-in-2015/ | title=U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015 | publisher=Pew Research Center | date=April 1, 2015 | access-date=April 14, 2016 | author=Aaron Smith}}</ref> Using [[social networking service]]s and [[online forum]]s, people are able to communicate with other users, regardless of geographic region or time constraints. The rise of this type of interaction partly explains the significant increase in phone use in younger people, and [[mobile technology]] is mainly used for the purposes of communication.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pewinternet.org/2009/08/19/teens-and-mobile-phones-over-the-past-five-years-pew-internet-looks-back/ | title=Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back |publisher=Pew Research Center | date=August 19, 2009 | access-date=April 14, 2016 | author=Amanda Lenhart}}</ref>  Digitalism is also slowly replacing many forms of physical aids, such as print encyclopedias and dictionaries, with people turning to newer technology for various needs.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/blowntobitshowne00evan | contribution=How Encyclopædia Britannica Was Blown To Bits | title=Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy | work=Capitalism Magazine | publisher=Harvard Business Review Press | date=December 5, 2000 | access-date=April 14, 2016 | author1=Philip Evans | author2=Thomas Wurster | isbn=978-0875848778 }}</ref> In his book, Nicholas Negroponte explains how necessities in the future will be [[Digitizing|digitized]]. For example, a large proportion of [[mass media]] (including newspapers and magazines) are becoming digitized,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.simon-kucher.com/sites/default/files/stud_benchmarking_study_digitalization_2014.pdf|title=Just how digital are newspapers and magazines today? A global perspective|author=Annette Ehrhardt|author2=Lisa Jäger|author3=Christoph Röttgen|work=Simon-Kucher.com|access-date=2016-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317092619/http://www.simon-kucher.com/sites/default/files/stud_benchmarking_study_digitalization_2014.pdf|archive-date=2017-03-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a large percentage of financial transactions made in the United States are being made without the physical exchange of money (e.g. [[Online banking|online]]).

Computation is frequently discussed in debates on digitally. Modern theorists are now choosing to focus more on our relation to computers rather than the computers themselves as an important element of digitality.<ref>Boast, Robin. ''[http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781780237398 The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and its Consequences]''. Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.{{pn|date=March 2021}}</ref>