Electronic systems are difficult to describe and explain because: 1) electronic systems involve an unusual layering of several different languages, 2) electricity itself is invisible, and may be indefinable, 3) developments in electronics are occurring so rapidly that few people understand its history, and 4) electricity or electronics is impossible to dramatize and make human.
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