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A (Legal) View from a Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Metaphors for Information and its Value in the Information Age

Author: Toby Blyth BA, LLB
Solicitor, Middletons Moore & Bevins
Subjects: Information society
Information technology - philosophy
Information technology - social aspects
Issue: Volume 7, Number 4 (December 2000)
Category: Comment

Abstract

The author considers a number of ways in which information can be thought about in the "Information Society", including biological, cartographic and other metaphors. He concludes that "mixed metaphors" may be necessary to comprehend and work with information flows today.

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