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Print Metaphors Are Dead

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Print Metaphors Are Dead

A smart note about information metaphors

Lance Cummings
Jun 28, 2021
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A smart note about information metaphors

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Print metaphors no longer work in the digital age. Stop thinking in pages! For centuries, we’ve used books as a metaphor to structure our experience … at least in that thing we call “Western Civilization.” Before that, we used speech and other forms of experience to structure our exper…

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