"I HAVE A MAJOR BEEF with the application of physical terms to new media. I was reminded of this recently while reading a headline on the computer-news website CNET: “Facebook Delivers Paper to iPhone.” Consider a slightly edited reprisal of this headline: “Book, Paper, Phone.” And never mind the fact that these anachronistic terms are being used to describe a social network creating a new app (called Paper) for a mobile digital device. Or consider the term cloud, which is used to give some semblance of natural physicality to the invisible Wi-Fi vapor that stores our e-mails and sends our JPEGS across the globe."
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- bill 7-27-2014 6:24 pm