Notes from Class Discussion on "High Tech Trash"

Knowledge is thought externalized. Thinking is resultant of social interaction and conversation. Writing is thought re-externalized. –Ken Bruffee

1. What data does Chris Carroll draw on in “High-Tech Trash” (Did you access any of this data?) -- Personal experience- went to go see it with his own eyes, Matthew Hale from EPA, Gordon Moore- “Moore’s law”, BAN, High school teacher in China, A Store in Frederick, Maryland, Basel Convention

2. Does Carroll use active verbs in his presentation? Where? -- Choking, Bashed, Flanked, Smashing, Rumbles

Does Carroll use figuration (figurative language, similies/metaphors) to make meaning more readily accessible for the non-specialist reader? Where? No, most of his information is simple with research, rather than similies are metaphors. Yet, he kind of speaks in figuration to describe the setting for the reader who cannot imagine what it looks like.

4. Portable wisdom from Nicholas Carr: “I’m not thinking the way I used to” (30). à What wisdom does Carroll offer? --“People have always been profficient about making trash”, “In a global economy, out of sight will not stay out of mind for long.”, “The key to making money is speed, not safety”, “So what happens to all this junk?”- His wisdom is to realize where your technology is going.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/high-tech-trash/carroll-text/1