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]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/12/26/metaphors-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-16239 Mike Peter Reed Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:31:51 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3359#comment-16239 This is transformation, not metaphor? Take a motor car with all it's mechanical complexity. It came out of the rocks. The rocks formed from stardust. Is it not reality that stardust has become a car, as transformed by man? Similarly, have not electrical impulses been transformed by man by harnessing the sciences for the purposes of transformation? If your transformation provides nothing useful, nothing different, nothing remarkable - then you may as well still have a handful of stardust. Which is the situation Microsoft finds itself in ... My Mac is not my metaphorical desktop -- it *is* my actual desktop, where I have my actual In Tray, my actual Out Tray, my communications methods, etc. I am not a metaphorical user - I actually use my Mac to do stuff, even spend energy transforming my ideas into something I can articulate to others. Binary 'information' is actually data. It is not information until it has been *transformed*. The Death of Computer Science has a strong correlation with the rise of Microsoft :-( Long Live Computer Science. This is transformation, not metaphor? Take a motor car with all it’s mechanical complexity. It came out of the rocks. The rocks formed from stardust. Is it not reality that stardust has become a car, as transformed by man?
Similarly, have not electrical impulses been transformed by man by harnessing the sciences for the purposes of transformation?
If your transformation provides nothing useful, nothing different, nothing remarkable — then you may as well still have a handful of stardust. Which is the situation Microsoft finds itself in …
My Mac is not my metaphorical desktop — it *is* my actual desktop, where I have my actual In Tray, my actual Out Tray, my communications methods, etc.
I am not a metaphorical user — I actually use my Mac to do stuff, even spend energy transforming my ideas into something I can articulate to others.
Binary ‘information’ is actually data. It is not information until it has been *transformed*. The Death of Computer Science has a strong correlation with the rise of Microsoft
Long Live Computer Science.

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