2022/06/04

Justin E. H. Smith Hunts for the “Most Effective Metaphor for the Internet”

● 04/06/2022
“Is it like a postcoital-snail telegraph? Or like a Renaissance-era wheel device that allowed readers to browse multiple books at once? Or perhaps like a loom that weaves together souls?”
– Writer Kyle Chayka, on scholar Justin E. H. Smith hunting for “the most effective metaphor for the internet” in his new book The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
New Yorker
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