The readings this week were extremely different from the previous readings. They received mixed reviews. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
A past reading mentioned that there are no metaphors that really cover what the internet is, since it’s such a big, new concept. That won’t stop us from trying, though. Over the course of the blog posts, the internet was compared to:
- a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel
- scaffolding, attached to our brains
- learning a language
- the “Room of Requirement”
What do you think? Which metaphor is closest? Why does each fail/succeed? How might you think of the internet differently because of the readings or discussion?
It was also very common that people seemed frustrated with the readings. Several posts expressed some level of discontent, wondering where the readings are leading us. Are they helping us? What do you think?
But along with the lovely forking paths metaphor from “The Garden of Forking Paths,” it only seems fair to leave you with David Bowie a la “Labyrinth,” where “everything seems possible, and nothing is as it seems.”
