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Hot zone. Air lock. These are both examples of jargon, aka slang.
THE ANSWER IS A BECAUSE ITS THE MOST LOGICAL ANSWER OUT OF ALL THE CHOICES
Stream-of-consciousness is a very stylistic form of free indirect discourse. It is not spontaneous, or unintentional, or anything of the sort. In fact, if anything, it's just the opposite. It's highly stylized, but also purposeful and calculating. It sees the world wholly through the character's mind instead of through their senses, save for how the mind and the senses interact.
It relates to a lot of things - free association, synesthesia, free indirect discourse, without actually being any of them.
<span>There's only a handful of writers that can actually do stream-of-consciousness writing with any success - Joyce and Faulkner come to mind immediately. In short, there's nothing wrong with trying it, but there's also nothing wrong with not having done that, but having done, say, free association instead.</span>
Modern fax machines use "computers" to transmit text, since computers use the Internet, which remains the fasted and simplest way to transmit information in the modern world.