Star Trek, the Next Generation star Patrick Stewart in his role as Captain Picard. Sci-fi setting aside, the show's themes often revolve around communications — centering on issues that are similar to ...

There was a time when metaphor was considered primarily an advanced language skill, a tool mainly used by poets and speakers well-trained in rhetoric. Modern linguistic science has overthrown that ...

I’m writing this article after a week of “slumping” stocks, “rattled” investors, and “bumpy roads” for the U.S. economy. Business reporters and their guests like to reach for metaphors that ...

Web searches for the term “soft landing” spiked in August of last year. That’s when U.S. economists changed their forecast for the economy. Instead of calling for a recession as they had been, most ...

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who ...

A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as. A simile is a useful way to describe something without using a long list of adjectives. It can create a vivid image in ...

The digitization of the planet has brought about profound changes. Now, people of different origins can exchange information thousands of kilometers apart, without moving an inch, at breakneck speed.

What is programming? How would you visualize it? Probably a bit like in the Wachowski sisters' film The Matrix (2000): lines of different codes forming a world, or simply a program. But that's not the ...