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Only because that is the best technology currently available to build them with. Many computers have been proposed and/or designed and/or built with other technologies, a few of which are (with an example if possible):

  • mechanical - Babbage's Analytical Engine, designed but never built and Zuse's Z-2
  • electromechanical - Aiken's Harvard Mark I and IBM's SSEC and Zuse's Z-3
  • hydraulics/fluidics - proposed for use in high radiation environments (nuclear reactors, satellites, etc.), some prototypes built in 1960s
  • optical - possible future replacement for electronics, prototypes still in development
  • holographic - still largely hypothetical proposals
  • quantum - very limited prototypes built but promises an unlimited increase in processing speed
  • etc.
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