Lovers of English literature, prose and poetry have never needed to be enticed or cajoled into reading the works of William Shakespeare. In an application of Cartesian dynamics, “he wrote therefore they read”. This has never been the case for the more computer-centric subset of the world’s population though.
Of late, there has been a fledgling effort to appeal to the hard-core techie, nerdy types and expose them to the ornate, written artistry of Shakespeare using a language they better understand than English or other well-known cultural languages. Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, known almost universally, was the obvious starting point for this endeavor. The opening line, rewritten expressly with computer nerds in mind, in hexadecimal form is:
Machine language code writers all over the world have begun the arduous task of translating the entire works of Shakespeare into binary, octal and hexadecimal to appeal to as many nerd cultures as possible. Publishers are retooling their equipment to accommodate this new language convention. The suggested retail price of Hamlet will be $31.F316. Kindle editions, available for download in binary only, are $00.002.
I have long believed that mathematics is the universal language, and music is mathematical also. So it makes sense to me that computer language might also work. Is there anything that can't be digitized?