BANE OF THE BINARY
Sumit Chakraborty | February 2026
We live in a digital age where the binary number system of zeroes and ones manages to deal with a mind-boggling array of topics and concepts. A search engine, with the help of those two digits, will provide an answer to just about any topic under the Sun and beyond. In many situations in life, we manage to cozily settle into the narrative provided by the binary: thumbs up, thumbs down. The binary world channelizes the thought process to “if it is not this, then it must be that” (sound like a computer code?)—there is no other, nothing in between. Black or white—not much grey, let alone color.