Gopnik presents his argument into three categories, : The Never-Betters, the Better-Nevers and the Never-Wasers. This allows Gopnik to hide his own opinion behind three separate doors of thought. The Never-Betters love this constant output of technology, the Better-Nevers hate it and have a feeling of nostalgia for holding a paperback book and lastly the Never-Wasers believe that it is not the machine or the human's fault but just a cyclic pattern of evolution.
Gopnik addresses all different types of people and their reaction to the technological era, and in this we get a view of how these types of people perceive it. We can pin ages and personality types to these groups just by assuming. For example, the Never-Betters are most likely people from the younger or digital generations who feel somewhat enthusiastic about this new era. In addition to this, Gopnik speaks about how it is changing how we go about life.
On the Ever-Waser's side of the argument these inovations in technology have always been around. Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher, believed that writing anything down would be detrimental to human development. He believed that once we put the info down on paper our minds wouldn't need to remember it. This argument is very similar to the internet debate that is so popular today.
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