> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 2:25 PM > To: 'Arthur'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] CP4E > > "Files aren't real" sounds like a philosophical statement. You could say > it's a metaphor. In Linux, even devices get to be files.
It's a philosophical statement to the extent that we need to differentiate (that word again) between what is as we find it, and what is because we made it that way. Nothing about the current state of computer interfaces or organization is or was inevitable. It represents more a reflection of our limitations, than our transcendence. What we can *find8 is much more capable than anything we can make, and there is more than enough to do in finding what we can find to keep us busy well past 5th grade. But if there wasn't confusion on the point, explained at least in part by a narcissism connected to "our" technological achievements - it wouldn't be worrisome. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
