colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (01/05/86)
> Or check out a book called > "Turing's Man," by Stephen Bolton, which discusses changing metaphors > for life, the universe, and everything (the ancient Greeks had the > spindle, renaissance Europeans had the clock mechanism, we today have > the computer as a central metaphor, he claims). We change our world > views as our knowledge of ourselves and the universe changes. McLuhan's _Understanding Media_ also discusses the importance of the clock metaphor in the late middle ages and the Renaissance. (Both books are well worth reading.) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva
krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz) (01/07/86)
>> Or check out a book called >> "Turing's Man," by Stephen Bolton, which discusses changing metaphors >> for life, the universe, and everything (the ancient Greeks had the >> spindle, renaissance Europeans had the clock mechanism, we today have >> the computer as a central metaphor, he claims). We change our world >> views as our knowledge of ourselves and the universe changes. > McLuhan's _Understanding Media_ also discusses the importance of the > clock metaphor in the late middle ages and the Renaissance. (Both > books are well worth reading.) -- > Col. G. L. Sicherman > UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel And, of course, in breaking down the barriers of modernism, Salvador Dali did his famous "melted clock" paintings. Right? Not to mention the clock with the hand at 2 minutes to twelve, the doomsday metaphor of our times. - Michael Krantz - - - - - "The text reveals the process of its production."