[Air-L] Metaphors in Technology

[Hall, Richard H.]

How about "tubes" (couldn't resist) ... Richard


On 7/1/08 8:34 AM, "elijah wright" <elijah.wright at gmail.com> wrote:

>>   I like those thoughts.  It's easy to joke about Sen. Steven's
>> "tubes" but that's a metaphor even technically-minded persons resort
>> to at times (useful when discussing bandwidth, for example).
> 
> I see that "pipe" didn't make the list... as in, "how big is the pipe
> (connection to the internet) you guys have?"
> 
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Richard H. Hall
Professor, Information Science and Technology
Missouri S&T
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