Technically you can mold firehoses into other metaphors at the UI level (whether deterministically or algorithmically). And vice versa, any system that processe

Technically you can mold firehoses into other metaphors at the UI level (whether deterministically or algorithmically). And vice versa, any system that processes data in real time can be shown as a firehose. But as they say, biases in technology creep in so early on, they are not even considered as such. If your main mental model for online communication is an amorphous agitating mass of delocalized entities that exchange tiny bits of information then this is what you are going to build and this is what you are going to get.