# Repaved paths and generative metaphors: Expressing human purposes with technology

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The piece argues that technology expresses human purposes and that generative metaphors can reveal alternative ways to design and use it.

Blog post · Medium · 23 June 2016

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Medium (medium.com)](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/repaved-paths-and-generative-metaphors-expressing-human-purposes-with-technology-321b10fa5bf)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 23 June 2016
- Published in: Medium
- Language: English

Topics: metaphor, technology, educational-technology, human-agency.

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