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Re: Environment over Infotech (from Stefan Bauschard)


> Brad Thompson said that the IT topic will lead to huge DAs about nano,
> socialism, anarchy, and other processed meatballs.  While the links are
> good, these DAs don't seem very unique.  Info tech is being developed in
> the SQ (Gore's Superhighway, for ex, and read Nye's new article in Foreign
> Affairs).  Good affirmatives will probably argue that infotech development
> is inevitable in the status quo and that x (some benign information
> technology) isn't being developed in the status quo.  Unless you have a
> card that says x causes gray goo, I don't think the meatballs will be that
> helpful. 

This argument is an argument against the infotech topic- i.e., it goes 
(or seems to go) in the SAME direction as the status quo, which along 
with the fact that it allows very small affirmatives, means that the 
negative will be hurtin' for unique arguments on the really cool cases 
which develop new shit. This applies to the most limiting, unidirectional 
resolutions being offered in the topic paper, that is. 

Kate
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