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Chi Onwurah on why engineering is a caring profession.

The Life Scientific

CHAPTER

The Digital Switchboard

i s d n was the first transition from. voice and analogue and analogue world into a digital world. When we say digital, as you say, we mean zeros and ones. That's the language that computers understand. So they can share data and information amongst themselves much more quickly and more powerfully than we can share it among ourselves. They can also decide where it goes, so thath the communications can be shared automatically without having to have human interventions.

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