Information in the analogue world is finite, but infinite in the digital world

In the analogue world the scarcity or uniqueness of the resources found in Nature is the drive behind human culture and history. Because humans have a need to augment their information processing, all of their history so far can be read as a long march to exhaust to the greatest extent possible the processing opportunities offered to them in the analogue world (meaning in Nature). These are, nevertheless, finite. While immaterial information processing (i.e. of thoughts, feelings, wishes) in the analogue world may be infinite, its execution (materialisation) is still restrained by finite resources.

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