We are not bound to a binary system; the idea of a trinary computing has been around for a long time.
Think about it, a thing can essentially have (one of) three different types of charge: positive, negative and none, so that would give you a trinary system.
There was a slashdot story on this a while ago, in fact.
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We are not bound to a binary system; the idea of a trinary computing has been around for a long time.
Think about it, a thing can essentially have (one of) three different types of charge: positive, negative and none, so that would give you a trinary system.
There was a slashdot story on this a while ago, in fact.