Communications - concept and reality

With the introduction of sophisticated techniques such as switching, and encoding, and computer memories, ``communication´´ has gone far beyond its original function, the simple transmission of a message, to complex systems requiring many specialists from many disciplines¿and so we have produced the ``systems engineer.´´ Since education can also be considered a form of communication, it is suggested that it utilize these communications concepts to help solve two of the most difficult problems it faces today: the organization and integration of our ever-increasing, increasingly segmented, store of knowledge.