Most people do interact to convey or share their feelings, thoughts, ideas, knowledge, emotions, and experiences to others. The process of communication is natural and inherent to all human life even to non-living things such as our electronic gadgets and computers. Communication could be verbal, nonverbal i.e body language, print, and electronic processes.
The two main communication barriers to human are language and distance. Long distance communicating is an inherent problem in communication, while language barriers arise between people of different cultures or nationalities.

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I cannot imagine conducting our lives or our daily businesses without a good and reliable communication network. Just imagine our world without the e-mail, telephone, television, radio, cell phones, tablets, internets or computer networking. Our world and society are informative which must be accessible and applied in a timely way, a functional part of it is a good communication system. Rapid communication is critical in our very fast-paced world. It is also addictive. Once we adopt and get used to any form of electronic communication, we become hooked to its benefits.

communication: Before we got here

In the neolithic and the stone age, communication between human beings was limited to face-to-face encounters. They were able to cope and accomplished long-distance communication first by sending simple signals such as horn blasts, drumbeats, and smoke signals and later by waving signal flags called semaphores. Some other signals or signs include: sending of red clothing which means danger while white clothing means peace, a crowd of people holding leafs could mean that they engage in peaceful protest. All these forms of communication are referred to as "Aroko" in Yoruba Language.

When messages were relayed from one location to another, even greater distances could be covered. Later, both long and short distance communications were extended by the written words, but this mode of communication was exclusively for learned and educated people. For many years, most importantly, long-distance communication was limited to the sending of verbal or written messages by the horseback, human-runner, through ships, and later by trains.

Human communication took a giant leap forward in the late nineteenth century when electricity was discovered and its many applications were explored. The telegraph was invented in 1844 by Samuel Morse and the telephone in 1876 by Alexander Bell. Radio or radio wave was discovered in 1887 by Heinrich Hertz who was a German and Guglielmo Marconi (Italian) demonstrated wireless communications by radio waves demonstrated in 1895.

Some other inventions such as Invention of the two-electrode vacuum tube rectifier by John Fleming in 1903, Invention of amplitude modulation by Reginald Fessenden in 1906, Invention of the triode vacuum tube by Lee de Forest in 1906, and Invention and demonstration of television in 1923 by Vladimir Zworykin e.t.c established the foot of electronic communication.

Starting from the twentieth century, many well-known forms of electronic communication, such as the telephone, radio, TV, and the Internet, have tremendously increased our ability to share information and also to engage in easy communication. The way we do things, our perspective about issues, how successful we are at our place of work, our life experiences, environmental influences and our personality is directly functional to how well we communicate. It was that there is a shift of emphasis in our society from mass production of goods and manufacturing to packaging, accumulation, and processing of information.

Electronic communication system

What is Electronic Communication?
Electronic communication is a specialized field of study concerned with the use of electronic media, devices and systems such as computer systems, fax machine, e-mail, title or video conferencing and satellite network for the acquisition or acceptance, processing, storage, display, analysis, protection, disposition, and transfer of information. Various conversations can be shared, including image, picture, sound, interactive software, graphics, maps, e.tc to mention few.

Electronic Communication Processes Explained
All forms and categories of electronic communication systems consist of three basic components or elements, which are; a transmitter, a communication channel (medium), and a receiver. Electronic communication involves some fundamental which are described below.

Electronic Communication Processes

Communication begins with an idea or knowledge from which human generates some kind of message, data, or other intelligence that must be transmitted or received by another person or group of persons. The intelligence must be described with a required level of precision, by a set of symbols which may be in form of electrical, aural, or visual.
The suitably encoded symbols (usually in form of electrical signals) are transmitted over a physical media of interest.

The transmission of the encoded symbols to the desired destination is achieved by the transmitter. At the receiver, the encoding and reproduction of the original symbols occur. Then the original message signal is re-created, with a definable degradation in quality resulting from the addition of noise in the communication channel and in the receiver.
Noise is the general term applied to any phenomenon that degrades or interferes with the transmitted information.

There are some other forms of electronic communication that does not involve direct human mind in real time. For example, in computer networking, two or more computers are linked together wirelessly or remotely to serve a special purpose. Most times, human only involved in setting up computer software for proper functionality, or in monitoring the results of operations.

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Image 2:Radio communication system
Image 3: Optic cable connected to a single patch panel
Image 5: Computer Networking

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