On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Sabryna Cornish <a135672@wpo.cso.niu.edu> wrote:
The internet as a disease is missing--this one was very popular when the internet was first being utilized by general society. Also, the internet as connection and disconnection. And of course the internet as transportation and its variations.
I like those thoughts. It's easy to joke about Sen. Steven's "tubes" but that's a metaphor even technically-minded persons resort to at times (useful when discussing bandwidth, for example). How about also including the Internet as a substance or a behavior or whatever metaphors are used by those who study "Internet addiction?" And going beyond the Internet, the "car" metaphor is ubiquitous in tech support (anti-virus definitions and OS patches as oil changes, I've heard a few folks that use forms similar to those used at oil change shops to present their potential services to clients, etc.). Kevin