We would argue that it is not just

We would argue that it is not just the computer’s speed that has infiltrated notions of work, productivity and intelligence and that has put us in a perpetual state of immediacy. It is the surfing, the e-mailing, the embedding, the instant messaging and chatting, the finding, the inserting, the linking that give the cues for comprehending and interpreting what is around us, and for enacting and reenacting that reality. Our tropes for how we communicate with one another have also been influenced—we now have online and offline conversations. In our encounters with people, are we becoming more like our e-mail—brief, casual, punctuated and immediate? Are we surfing places much as we do websites? It is not just the idea of speed; it is
the native model of what the computer does and the conventions derived from their use of them that makes a computer a potent metaphor and a native model for productivity. A tech-savvy respondent in his 20s tells us that he gets impatient and irritated at red lights not because
the lights are slow, but because the lights are not “smart”— they should be able to “read” traffic needs—and therefore be “green” when there is no traffic. While a “fast” processing computer is a “good” computer, a “fast” computer is also one that allows us to carry out multiple processes, to simultaneously open up multiple windows, to do things like quadruple boot.
5. Conclusion: computing metaphors are reconfiguring the sense of self and society
By forging their way into our notions of personal power, computing metaphors are affecting our cultural sense of what it means to be a person. These metaphors have also affected our sense of how our minds work. If people now say that something was not saved on their “hard drive”, they might not literally mean in their computer, but rather in their own memories. One respondent told us that his wife has accused him of being a “binary thinker”, using a computer- inspired metaphor to express her exasperation over what, in other times, she might have described as his inability to think in shades of gray or his “black and white” thinking. Since today the internet is increasingly synonymous with the computer, it has become an important source for contemporary mental processing metaphors. “Bandwidth is now part of the figurative vocabulary, as in “do you have the bandwidth for that”? roughly glossed as scope and ability. And if once we “wrapped our heads around an idea”, we now “download” and “link” to it, as we download and link to sites on the internet. The use of these tropes illustrate, again, the generative or source status of the computer metaphor—which now foregrounds organization, powers of retrieval and productivity of the mind versus more creative, figurative dimensions (even if in programming and artificial intelligence circles, articulations of computer processes have gone far beyond mere retrieval and calculation, see Turkle, 1995). Notably, computing metaphors have also entered professional models of how the brain and mind works (Gleitman et al., 1999; Turkle, 1997). In the well-known work of Turkle (1984, 1995), we also find the argument that people’s sense of self has been affected in light of computer familiarity and use. For instance, she maintains that people have a Windows-influenced sense of themselves as both multiply refracted and flexible (Truckle, 1995). We would add that the current portability of the computer and related technological devices must also be considered. Beyond the sense of self, the portability of contemporary technological devices has allowed us to reconfigure our sense of social space and place. Harvey (1990) has discussed the concept of “time–space compression” that has arisen in light of interconnected capital, transportation and communication technologies of the modern and postmodern worlds. As he observed, many have noted—with varying degrees of alarm—the seeming collapse of social space and time in light of these developments.

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Kami berpendapat bahwa itu bukanlah hanya komputer kecepatan yang telah menyusup pengertian kerja, produktivitas dan kecerdasan dan yang membuat kita dalam keadaan terus-menerus kedekatan. Itu adalah berselancar, e-mail, embedding, instan pesan dan chatting, temuan, memasukkan, menghubungkan yang memberi isyarat untuk memahami dan menafsirkan apa yang ada di sekitar kita, dan untuk memberlakukan dan menghidupkan kembali kenyataan itu. Kami bishonen untuk bagaimana kita berkomunikasi dengan satu sama lain juga telah dipengaruhi — kami sekarang memiliki percakapan online dan offline. Dalam pertemuan kami dengan orang-orang, kita menjadi lebih seperti kami e-mail — singkat, santai, punctuated dan segera? Kita surfing tempat-tempat seperti yang kita lakukan website? Ianya tidak hanya ide dari kecepatan; itumodel asli apa komputer dan Konvensi berasal dari penggunaan mereka yang membuat komputer metafora yang kuat dan model asli untuk produktivitas. Tech-savvy responden di 20-an memberitahu kita bahwa dia tidak sabar dan terganggu di lampu merah tidak karenalampu lambat, tetapi karena lampu tidak "cerdas" — mereka harus mampu untuk "membaca" kebutuhan lalulintas — dan karena itu menjadi "hijau" ketika tidak ada lalu lintas. Sementara komputer "cepat" pengolahan "baik" komputer, komputer "cepat" juga merupakan salah satu yang memungkinkan kita untuk melaksanakan beberapa proses, sekaligus membuka beberapa jendela, melakukan hal-hal seperti quadruple boot.5. kesimpulan: komputasi metafora mengkonfigurasi ulang rasa diri dan masyarakatBy forging their way into our notions of personal power, computing metaphors are affecting our cultural sense of what it means to be a person. These metaphors have also affected our sense of how our minds work. If people now say that something was not saved on their “hard drive”, they might not literally mean in their computer, but rather in their own memories. One respondent told us that his wife has accused him of being a “binary thinker”, using a computer- inspired metaphor to express her exasperation over what, in other times, she might have described as his inability to think in shades of gray or his “black and white” thinking. Since today the internet is increasingly synonymous with the computer, it has become an important source for contemporary mental processing metaphors. “Bandwidth is now part of the figurative vocabulary, as in “do you have the bandwidth for that”? roughly glossed as scope and ability. And if once we “wrapped our heads around an idea”, we now “download” and “link” to it, as we download and link to sites on the internet. The use of these tropes illustrate, again, the generative or source status of the computer metaphor—which now foregrounds organization, powers of retrieval and productivity of the mind versus more creative, figurative dimensions (even if in programming and artificial intelligence circles, articulations of computer processes have gone far beyond mere retrieval and calculation, see Turkle, 1995). Notably, computing metaphors have also entered professional models of how the brain and mind works (Gleitman et al., 1999; Turkle, 1997). In the well-known work of Turkle (1984, 1995), we also find the argument that people’s sense of self has been affected in light of computer familiarity and use. For instance, she maintains that people have a Windows-influenced sense of themselves as both multiply refracted and flexible (Truckle, 1995). We would add that the current portability of the computer and related technological devices must also be considered. Beyond the sense of self, the portability of contemporary technological devices has allowed us to reconfigure our sense of social space and place. Harvey (1990) has discussed the concept of “time–space compression” that has arisen in light of interconnected capital, transportation and communication technologies of the modern and postmodern worlds. As he observed, many have noted—with varying degrees of alarm—the seeming collapse of social space and time in light of these developments.