"software" = "political environment"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Fundamentally influential situation; paradigm"?

You know, like software provides the patterns that allow things to happen.

I bet the new software impacts all the narratives.

JL

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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>  From the article "Upheaval Jolts Israel And Raises New Worry", Feb. 24:
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> Other analysts see a major opportunity for Israel.  "It's a whole new
> software now being unfolded," said Gilles Kepel, a scholar of Islam
> at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.  "I believe there's a
> big opening, and the ball is in the Israeli court."
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> "software" = "political environment"?  In that domain, what is
> "hardware"?  "Military environment", warfare?
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> Joel
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