All three pairs may converse, but they must take turns. Adapting to the problem, the guests find that, when it is their turn, they tend to talk faster than usual. And while waiting, they search for economical turns of phrase, to encode more meaning in less transmission time. It also triples the number of conversations the hostess can accommodate. Unfortunately, this is a paradigm party of legend, a party of the decade.
Guests continue to throng in at a rate of millions per week.
So she asks everyone to return to the main room and speak as softly as they can manage, but each pair in a different language. Mirabile dictu , everyone can hear and understand the signal meant for him or her. Adding silence, taking away noise, the solutions have progressed on a continuum from the purely physical to the predominantly logical. In the first, the analog solution, our only resources were physical separating the speakers by space. In the TDMA solution, we employed two physical dimensions and built our isolation chamber out of both space and time.