"...Brian Smith (1996) makes a similar point when he speaks of "inscription errors": inscribing one's discourse into an artifact and then turning around and "discovering" it there. The hidden connections between artifacts and language are particularly significant in the case of another large category of artifacts, namely computers. The design of a computer begins with formalization – an intensive and highly skilled type of work on language."
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/practical.html
#philosophy #computers
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