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In French, a computer is an ordinateur. Is this an ordering, organizing thing? This seems very distinct from calculation, which English-speaking scholarship tends to emphasize as the essence/nature of computing/computers.
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yeah totally different vibe, like ministries, offices, indices of info to be organized and coordinated. this bigger range of stories opens up the imagination about how we can be in the technological present and future.
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I think I'm often trying to get people to see computing as not necessarily whatever form or process they have in mind. The lock gets tight given the plasticity and expressive possibility computing actually allows. I can see the creeps given. Makes sense.
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