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Geeks and gods: ICT’s Debt to the Arts
Abstract
With each new object and phenomena humankind discovers, develops or invents, a new set of words must be coined or adopted to describe them. Words are not neutral, carrying with them a host of associations and connotations based on their previous applications and alliances, and augmented by their shapes, sounds, rhymes and rhythms. Many words which are now solidly embedded in ICT’s, retain and continue to be colored by these earlier meanings, some of which are drawn from the myths whose power endures to this day.
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