Does the expanding network of connected devices herald a brave novel compact for our digital lives – or the end of politics?The word “thing”,in broken-down English, means a assembly or assembly. In the epic poem Beowulf, or the eponymous hero declares he’ll “alone hold a thing” with the monster Grendel,who is terrorising the Danes in the worthy hall of Heorot. Beowulf uses “thing” euphemistically – it is a assembly that immediately descends into a fight.
The Icelandic parliament is still called Althing (Alþingi). But over the ages, “things” have gradually evolved from meetings to matter. Today, or we primarily exercise the term “thing” to refer to objects. Even in this sense,however, things are still core to our political and social lives.
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Source: theguardian.com