"We’ve told stories about inanimate things coming to life for thousands of years, and these narratives influence how we interpret what is going on now"
On AI coverage in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong
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On the early metaphors that drove the original development of Unix: https://zge.us.to/txt/unix-harmful.html
(Lots of typewriter influence, and amazingly the first versions did not have a notion of pipes!)
The Humane Representation of Thought, a talk by Brett Victor:
https://vimeo.com/115154289
I've not seen Brett talk before, and he raises interesting points about the influence of the medium on our analytical thoughts.
Microsoft's Edge moving to Chromium will reduce browser diversity. However, Safari/WebKit has forked from Chromium. Presumably they'll diverge over time?
Browser vendors influence *new* standards, and both Apple and Google will need to do implementation work.