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Where would we all be without all of our modern communication devices? One could argue that life would be a lot simpler, because we wouldn't be spending all of our time chatting and talking on our cellular phones, or watching television, but there is so much more involved in communications than just phones and TVs. The way that we process information on a global scale is so enormous, it's surprising how easy we understand and comprehend the "magical" transmission of news and information.

We often take for granted some of the devices we use in our everyday lives, such as home alarm systems, two-way radio systems, office paging systems, satellite communications, or other long range systems. The level of sophistication in our cellular telephones, MP3 players, digital cameras, alarm pagers, wireless security and surveillance systems is so vastly complex and would have required years to design, develop, and manufacture. And yet we tend to refer to all these systems, inventions, and simply as gadgets.

We don't always appreciate how modern communications has brought us into the digital age, and how much we have progressed since we first developed radio communication, or Morse Code, or even sound waves. Now that we have communication devices that can send millions of bytes of information in milliseconds to anywhere on the planet through satellite receivers, and through microprocessors, it would be almost impossible to imagine living again in a world where we couldn't instantly communicate our thoughts and messages, or if we could even do it if we had to.