Fill in the Blank

[John Steinmetz]

"The music is not in the piano" works because a piano is a 
music-specific device. (It also works because it's obvious to almost 
everybody where the music must be if it's not in the piano.) The 
blank in the phrase about the computer can't be filled so easily 
because it is a nonspecific device, capable of simulating other 
devices of many kinds, and additionally capable of new activities 
still un- or under-developed.

So no single word will fill the blank in that computer phrase, unless 
it is a word of a different order.

	John