THE COMPUTER "VIRUS" AS METAPHOR.
Discusses the computer virus as a metaphor. Quick identification of `worm' as a virus; Two parts in the interaction of each metaphor; Distinction between `vehicle' and `tenor'; Parallels between the AIDS virus and the computer `virus.'
| Published in: | ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 177 - 181 |
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Institute of General Semantics, Inc.
Summer90
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