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One of the most dangerous metaphors in history was 'Industrial Age', as it it suggested that everything existed to support the machine. We are in the Information Age (perhaps the end of it), and we are entangled in information. The next age may be the 'Intelligence Age' and we may be slaves of AI. We always wind up entangled in our metaphors, but none of them are completely superseded, as some parts of us are in the Stone Age and before. All ages are backwards-compatible. (3/2015)