"The digital computer is dead" (Chesher, 1). In the very beginning of Chesher makes this highly metaphorical sentence. The statement is systematically metaphorically where dead implies old and simple. And the opposite of dead is alive and that is new, fast, powerful. It is a competition. So then is life also a competition? Life begins, you're alive, and then ultimately you are dead. Death proceeds life. Like technology life begins fresh and advances quickly. Meanwhile there is always new life being created and continuing on closer to death. Life starts new, gets old, and dies. So did the digital computer.
"Technology is always advancing..." (Chesher, 3). Advancing implies moving forward or moving up...getting ahead. Always implies continuous, constantly. The result is described as "huge" and messy" rather chaotic. So what does that suggest about technology "always advancing". Prepare for disaster? You can't escape either, because it "leaping" ahead uncontrollably.
On page four Chesher discusses, in a broad sense, Modernity and Tradition in a dualistic like manner. He actually speaks of "a war of science against superstition" which does not necessarily translate into modernity versus tradition, BUT metaphorically it may suggest that. My brain just conceptualized it like that at first. Chesher speaks of the existence of magic even though technology reigns presently. This is true also for tradition among modernity. At the same time tradition does not equal magic nor does modernity equal technology. It is just one interpretation among many.
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