Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The more things change, well, you know, they don’t change.

The world is now ruled by hashtags. There are no more standard categories for anything. Everyone makes their own category when they want. This was all described several years ago in Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger.

Since nothing has a category, how do we find anything? Well, perhaps things aren’t as bad as they seem for us categorizing organizers of the world. People still seem to be using those old building blocks of the English (and other) language: nouns and verbs.

Yes, we fall back on the things and actions of our world for our miscellaneous categories. Perhaps the world has not ended.

And perhaps, just perhaps, I will learn how to spell “miscellaneous” without depending on the spell checker.