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Physical metaphors for digital safety

Even as internet use has grown exponentially, the hierarchy of metaphors that describe it has remained constant: The internet is most of all a mail pigeon, then a library, then an amusement park, then a shopping center.

We were originally wary of shifting rapidly among different disciplines but found that the students had no difficulty with this at all - the need to teach one subject at a time may exist mostly in the mind of an older generation.