A couple of words about telecommunications in images.

I bumped into this problem when the time came to order a new site for our company. It seems that most designers working on this topic usually slightly misunderstand how modern telecommunications look like.

From one side it's an issue of general thought on the telco stuff and from another -- the field of telecommunications is actually quite closed. You don't really often bump into a piece of DWDM equipment on the street, do you? Or have you ever seen how modern router or even server looks like.

It's strange, because we use this things every day for sending our e-mails and uploading the images to dreamstime.

I think most people hearing the word router imagine a piece of plastic with blinking ...

How about the things can talk to you or to each other? No, they can't? Incorrect. Things surely can talk. They even can speak in many languages. The first one I am going to write about is called "Repetition and rhythm". What is it?

When we have some ordinary object, we usually see just a piece of known and useful (or useless, actually doesn't matter) stuff*. But what if we got two objects? Than we can see a connection between them. They do talk! This is a very new matter, which is not related to the object itself. How about two connections? Two connections create a rule of connection. A lot of connections create a repetition rule. Even if you hate the objects themselves you may love the rule of those connection.

In the complex systems theory there is ...

You know, in spite of physical impossibility (although, who said 'impossibility'?) there is a number of time-machines in our life.

Undeveloped films. Lying in a fridge they keep memories from the past being just a piece of stuff in a fridge. Halogenated silver crystals -- can it mean anything? No, it can't.

And then you get the film out of the fridge, develop it, fix it, and wash. You take it into your hands to look at, see pictures and feel... Feel what you felt shooting it. Where were the feelings before? In the fridge? In those damn halogenated crystals?

Yes, physically the process is quite simple. But... but you see the girl which is not your girlfriend anymore or your granddad who has already died or any scratch which is different now and you feel... the feelings you've felt a ...