Post #4

The overall concept of Weinbergers theory is that everything in our digital world is so miscellaneous that its strategically organized in a way that we cant actually see. As he states in the last chapter, "the miscellaneous is unowned. Anyone can add to it. Anyone can slice it up and reorganize it the way she likes." He makes it clear that with everything being digital and a lump of metadata our brains must learn to understand a realm of information much deeper and its ins and outs. When the world was just books, journals and newspapers all we had to do was obtain the knowledge within them. We now have to know where to find it, how to understand it, ways to search for it, and so sift out exactly what we need. Weinberger loves the thought of miscellaneous and wants the new world to understand that it has made things simpler even though the word miscellaneous is so intimidating and overwhelming. Miscellaneous has actually become our benefit.