Ron Burnett seems fascinated by what he calls our “need to anthropomorphize machines” (126). He fails to recognize, though, that we need to anthropomorphize everything in the universe in order to conceptualize any of it. Much of the reason, I think, for the way we speak about machines – “the computer doesn’t want to turn on” – stems from the fact that those kinds of metaphors best describe what we imagine the machines as doing. Try explaining the internet to someone without using any words that could also be applied to humans.