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Digital utopia=no more negative soup

In Everything is Miscellaneous, author David Weinberger makes his technological utopian beliefs clear. Just like Andrew Keen, Weinberger’s bias is shown through the descriptive language that he uses to uphold his arguments. When describing the cons of using paper photographs, he says..

“Things made of atoms tend to be unstable over time–paper yellows and disintegrates, negatives turn to soup–so we have to take measures to sway nature from its course.” 

Instead of simply saying that paper photographs disintegrate over time, he finds it necessary to add that negatives turn to soup. The mental picture of a bowl of “negative soup,” is enough to make me switch to digital. In the same way that Andrew Keen argued against the digital world, Weinberger attempts to uphold its honor. By using such descriptive language, just as Keen did,  he is able to do so. He is arguing in the same manner (the bias is made clear), he’s simply arguing for the other side.

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