Digital Humanities is using technology in order to better understand and learn new concepts and ideas. It is taking technology such as computers and using them to acquire different data. Digital Humanities gives the researcher more ways to learn and a broader range of information to research. Digital Humanities matter because we live in a world where technology runs almost everything. Technology is extremely important in the modern world and it’s important that we keep up with it as well.
You make some good observations here, Steve, but I'd like to see you "zoom in" on DH in particular (rather than make sweeping statements about the proliferation of technology).
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