Although acquisition and verification have not changed in difficulty the nature of the interpersonal interface has. The same advantages in terms of speed and ease of transfer of information offered the simple one cell lifeforms by their development of into multicelled creatures is now available to the race. The telephones and sonar are ears. Radio and radar and television are eyes. Computers and switchboards are paralleled in the organic world by the emergence of ganglia and neuron bundles as information processing centers.
Fiberoptic cables are synapse.
The above comparison of information handling techniques in organic and electronic systems is an example of information engineering methods. Clearly there are insights to be gained by a careful examination of the organic information handling system which evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Even more important ideas can be derived from the pattern matching of the two systems. For the information engineer the most important difference in these systems appears in the error correction mechanisms or feedback loop. The above is description of the effects of oihs on eihs but information engineers would also want to consider the effects of eihs on oihs.