However, all the technical breakthroughs are build upon metaphors.
Don't you think?
Cunningham, Donald J. wrote:
>One more thought before night night. Fiction is a marvelous tool to
>exemplify points just because it tends to magnify or "blow up" the
>effect. My best example for "metaphorical thinking" is an old Star Trek
>New Generation called, I think, "The Children of Darmouk". The people
>communicate by citing various myths and legends rather than
>communicating directly. Wildly improbably that such a population could
>develop and achieve space travel but still good fun. And is this so far
>from the metaphors we live by (The good Samaritan; the prodigal child;
>the teacher who touches the lives of student through innovative teaching
>strategies; yadda, yadda)
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>Don Cunningham
>Indiana University
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cunningham, Donald J.
>Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:23 PM
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: Breaking away?
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>http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800041061&cf=info&intl=us
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>Don Cunningham
>Indiana University
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