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Chapter 5

The main point of chapter 5 is to discuss multiple specific ways of organizing miscellaneous piles or groupings of anything. Whether its of the simplest objects in life such as the silverware drawer or types of plants like Linnaeus did, which are actually simpler than worms and you wouldn’t think could be broken down into so many categories. Or there is the form of “tagging leaves” and forming the tree shape of organization. By the end of the chapter your introduced to the idea of tagging and how miscellaneous the internet actually is but so simplified because of ways to search of objects in such a large pool of information.

- “It was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – unjustly remembered primarily for being wrong about how giraffes got long necks.”
- “The gap between how we access information and how the computer accesses it is at the heart of the revolution in knowledge.”

The first quote that I picked out remind me directly of recent activity in y life because we are currently learning about Lamarck and his giraffe theory in my Physical Anthropology class


Chapter 6

The main point of chapter 6 is discussing the new age of how all kinds of stores use different forms of bar-coding, scanning, tracking, and packaging for their items. A larger scale of organization that not everyone may realize is taking place just to make every day shopping that much easier. It also discusses the complications within naming items around the world. They use seafood as a specific example and how there a multiple types of fish under one common name and can only be specified by their scientific name worldwide. Overall the chapter believes everything needs to be labeled in a smart manner.

- “As we enter the third order of order, bar codes are providing a handy gateway between physical products and digital information about those products.”
- “The world is so diverse in its things and how we view them that we’re never going to agree entirely; even when the intentions are the best and the leadership is unified, there will also be a miscellaneous residue.”

The first quote that I pulled out in this chapter reminds me of every interaction of obtaining something. I cant count the number of times I have used the self-scans at my local QFC and the non-replaceable bar-codes on a receipt you know you cant loose. Also the number of times I have had to scan a bar-code at my work or even yesterday when the ticket personal had to scan my bar-code on my lift ticket. Bar-codes are more of a necessity that we realize.