> finley writes:
>
> > Computers are electronic instruments
>
> oh, i am SO tempted to start up that instrument-tool-realm
> war again! computers are instruments? oooh, i'm biting my tongue ...
> metaphorically, speaking of course.
<giggle>
> besides, i don't make a big deal out of the tool-instrument differentiations
> (nancy tucker, you out there?), focusing more on tool/realm ... scott
> consigny, marshall mcluhan, etc. computers are ocommunications
> technolgies,a nd thus extensions of the human sensorium. so while they
> are tools we use for communicationg, eventually the technologies are
> interiorized at a soceiteal level and they become realms in which we
> exist. like the alphabet and the printed page before it ....
Yup. And whilst we are on the topic...here is where the "medium is the
message" breaks down, at least for me, if we think of the medium soley as
tool. Because we interpret our own tools. But this then becomes the
chicken/egg problem most would rather avoid. So just ignore my ramblings.
Janet
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