Unit 2
Communications
Communications, like all of the other six components, is the most familiar and important of the six (which is to say that they are all the most important most easily recognizable). The sphere of this component represents e-mail and instant messaging. Anything that sends information hither and thither is considered to be communications. This does not have to from machine to machine, it also includes the means that computers send information to and from other parts of itself. Sending the information from a 250MB zip disk to the memory or hardrive are also ways that communications are manifest. There are currently two recognized types of information sendings, analog and digital. Digital exists only in two states, on and off (one and zero) and is more easily stored and barely suffers from distortions. Analog transmission involves a series of continuously varying states and is easily distorted along the way.