A running joke between me and a friend of mine is "signals on wires!" referring to Jaron Lanier's criticism that all software is brittle because it operates on the "metaphor" of a signal traveling down a wire, instead of his preferred metaphor of interacting surfaces or something.
Like a nerd-issue Naomi Klein, he's acting as if metaphors are valid criteria on which to assess the technical merits of software. It's really quite ridiculous and indicative of being a bit too fond of the wacky tobacky.
Like a nerd-issue Naomi Klein, he's acting as if metaphors are valid criteria on which to assess the technical merits of software. It's really quite ridiculous and indicative of being a bit too fond of the wacky tobacky.