3.4 Creation

Creation refers to the fact that digital tools let us create data, in many forms such as text, tables, charts, images, sound and video. Digitals tools allow us to generate pictures of objects that do not exist in the world; set up virtual laboratories in which no one’s safety is at risk; do virtual experiments that we could not afford in the real world; and set up models of almost anything imagined and run simulations with them to see what happens.