Tag: Swinburne University of Technology

  • There is a history of metaphors for the internet

    There is a history of metaphors for the internet

    A professor at the Swinburne University of Technology fears that a metaphor obscures the fact that most of the data is created by users. The highway was the perfect metaphor: it’s a big state-funded infrastructure project that’ll facilitate commerce, not anarchic frontier. “Practically anything about the internet is going to have metaphors that help you…