Re: Environment over Infotech

[Becky Galentine <theloft@accessone.com>]

becky

Catherine Elizabeth Shuster wrote:
> 
> > 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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References:

• Re: Environment over Infotech (from Stefan Bauschard)
• From: Catherine Elizabeth Shuster <cshuste@emory.edu>

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