digitization

[dij-it-ahyz-ay-shuhn]

noun

1. the conversion or adaptation of something, such as data, an analog display, an activity, or a process, to a digital form or environment.

Example Sentences

In this productivity paradox, all that spending on shiny new computers and the digitization of work processes didn’t seem to make companies any more efficient or effective.

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In the 1960s it pioneered “machine-readable cataloging,” or MARC, launching the digitization of library catalogs and a nationwide automated library network.

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This is where digitization of scent comes in.

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But the growth of nonhuman influencers comes at a time when actual performers are worried about how digitization and automation through artificial intelligence could impact future work.

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One minus on the digitization ledger came Nov. 8, 2016, when at 8 p.m.

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