Eli5: How and why is information in the form of electricity?

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From computers and machinery to memories and nerve firings in humans and other animals, both use the flow of electricity to send, receive and read information/data. Why is that and what is it about electricity that does it? Like why not something else like sound or heat or radiation or something?

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In the computer world, it isn’t. It’s stored in the form of magnetic polarity. Electricity is just the method of altering or carrying that magnetic polarity, because electricity also has a magnetic component to it.

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