<p>The easy everyday practice of counting is transferred to technology (for good reasons, it is very repetitive). But the decision of what counts is legitimized by the database. This is interesting. The counting decision is also a decision about what counts.</p>
Data are constituted where the counting device translates into “the digital”. I think it more like a process. How can this process be described? How are impulses from induction translated in machine readable code? Is it encrypted when it goes from one device to the other? Is IoT involved? What devices communicate to which others? When do computers come in?