{"id":178,"date":"2006-06-15T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/06\/15\/relentless-modernity-holds-sway\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:02:25","slug":"relentless-modernity-holds-sway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/178","title":{"rendered":"Relentless Modernity Holds Sway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer problems. Bah! Humbug!\n<\/p>\n<p>Who built this kingdom of Babel?\n<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the developer&#8217;s disposition. For them, every glitch, bug, or snafu is a stimulus to enthusiasm, something new and challenging to solve. If I were the Maytag repairman, I&#8217;d be content to daydream my way through each blissful day.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;For every improvement there&#8217;s a commensurate level of frustration and confusion&#8230; With our intellectual assets more and more dependent on the Web, on networked computers, we seem as vulnerable as ever. Call this a pragmatist&#8217;s view of progress: All things change but our life experience remains essentially the same; everywhere there are new problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nDale Dougherty wrote that in 1998, and it remains as true as ever.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer problems. Bah! Humbug! Who built this kingdom of Babel? I don&#8217;t have the developer&#8217;s disposition. For them, every glitch, bug, or snafu is a stimulus to enthusiasm, something new and challenging to solve. If I were the Maytag repairman, I&#8217;d be content to daydream my way through each blissful day. &#8220;For every improvement there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}