The metaphors we use to talk about things are powerful. For example, when talking about the internet lately the "flow of information" is seen as a given. It's like drinking from a firehose. We're engulfed. We're drowning in it.

What if instead information online were a river, continuously available to carry us where we need to go, there to quench our thirst for knowledge, and distract us with cool waters for as long as we want to dip in our toes?

Don't you feel calmer already?

-CDKS

POSTED: October 30, 2018 | CATEGORIES: education social sociology  | TAGS: metaphors 

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