The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. It is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated. I was one of those knights when our leader vint cerf, father of the internet, crossed over to the telco side of the force.
Digital environments are procedural, participatory, spatia, and encyclopedic.