{"id":1346,"date":"2022-11-22T01:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2022-11-23T02:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T02:46:34","slug":"the-yeah-nah-conundrum-are-australians-adapting-to-the-digital-universe-by-speaking-in-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/the-yeah-nah-conundrum-are-australians-adapting-to-the-digital-universe-by-speaking-in-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yeah\/Nah conundrum &#8211; are Australians adapting to the digital universe by speaking in binary?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeahnah-poster22-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeahnah-poster22-1024x724.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeahnah-poster22-500x354.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeahnah-poster22-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeahnah-poster22-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeahnah-poster22-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask many Australians about a question and he or she will often reply with a combination of yeahs and nahs that are a highly nuanced and conditional assessment of the situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sort of thing irritates the hell out of some people &#8211; but in fact it may be that many Australians are sensing the longer term possibilities of directly communicating with the digital domain in its own binary language, substituting 1&#8217;s and 0&#8217;s  with yeahs and nahs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, we predict,  Australians may lose the ability to speak in old fashioned &#8216;language&#8217; and just use yeahs and nahs. This is what Australian Binary may ultimately sound like in some not so distant future:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/long-y-and-ns-211122.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are already signs (below) that road traffic management, for instance, is shifting to the Australian Binary model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeah-nah-traffic-management-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeah-nah-traffic-management-1024x630.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeah-nah-traffic-management-500x308.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeah-nah-traffic-management-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeah-nah-traffic-management-1536x945.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yeah-nah-traffic-management.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask many Australians about a question and he or she will often reply with a combination of yeahs and nahs that are a highly nuanced and conditional assessment of the situation. This sort of thing irritates the hell out of some people &#8211; but in fact it may be that many Australians are sensing the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/the-yeah-nah-conundrum-are-australians-adapting-to-the-digital-universe-by-speaking-in-binary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Yeah\/Nah conundrum &#8211; are Australians adapting to the digital universe by speaking in binary?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}