Tech Essays

Metaphorical Thinking – the Web Metaphors

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Metaphorical Thinking – Introduction Metaphorical Thinking – the Guest Metaphor Metaphorical Thinking – the Cloud Metaphors Metaphorical Thinking – the Web Metaphors If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are linked using hypertext. Farmer & Farmer   The Internet is derived from the words “interconnection of networks”, thus a global network of networks. The Web or the World Wide Web is information accessed …

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The Ethical Dilemma of Modern Content Creation and User Privacy

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Currently, browsing the web without using an ad-blocker or better browsers looks like shopping in the middle of a pandemic without a mask. Viruses are everywhere, and they take advantage of their future hosts. Third-party tracking, collecting, sharing, or selling users’ personal information, paywalls, popups, clickbait titles, and scams all produce a broken web experience.  How many times did I not want to read an article only to feel trapped like the Romans in the Caudine Forks?   Mortal, disable your adblocker if you want to read this post. Then accept my …

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