Consider what humanity would have to be like, for it not to have developed computing metaphors in the last 50 years.
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A humanity that could not think in terms of metaphors, would literally not be able to develop and use computers.
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This is because the computer you are using right now, has about 10^9 orders of magnitude levels of complexity. It's a tower of abstractions
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Metaphors are what allow you to cope with that tower of abstraction.
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Metaphors allow you to pinpoint the appropriate level of abstraction so you can think about it. You can't do it otherwise.
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Despite NAND to Tetris, you literally could not refer to a bug in Chrome speaking only on the level of logic gates. You *need* metaphors
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Note: "logic gates" are themselves a handy metaphor, made pretty damn recently.
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Every scene of technobabble in star trek, reveals that they have NOT CREATED NEW METAPHORS IN 300 YEARS.
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No one has, in 300 years, saw fit to refer to things on a higher level of abstraction.
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No one has, in 300 years, found that it's literally impossible to think about a technological problem without employing new metaphors
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Shaka, when the walls fell.
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