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The value of reintroducing friction into our interactions with computers

Bad Metaphors Close to the Metal The value of reintroducing friction into our interactions with computers Emma R. Norton October 15, 2019 share Image: By Tyler Spangler . Courtesy the artist. BAD METAPHORS is an ongoing series that takes a critical look at the figures of speech that shuttle between technology and everyday life. Read the others here . In the 1940s, when computers were the size of rooms, it took one’s entire body to program them. It demanded movement, reaching and hauling cables, adjusting complex series of switches that presented themselves as arrays in physical space. Programm

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