{"id":37,"date":"2009-03-19T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:19:26","slug":"interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Interesting times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"News of the day: imagine this 10 years ago\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3432\/3287332813_a6e906290a.jpg\" alt=\"Imagine this falling through a time hole into the 90s\" width=\"412\" height=\"309\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imagine this falling through a time hole into the 90s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It looks like all of society as we knew it is kind of coming apart, something I hyperbolically declaimed would happen in my attention seeking drama laden way in the mid 90s, when I was trying to explain the internet to people like the California Banker&#8217;s Association.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea I was right. Or at least, if I had some idea intellectually, I had none emotionally, and certainly no idea what the implications of it were. Disruption is an intense thing to live through, and littered with casualties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable\/\">Clay on newspapers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/the-cute-cat-theory-talk-at-etech\/\">Ethan&#8217;s cute cat theory on government destabilization<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio_episode.aspx?sched=1242\">TAL on the giant pool of money<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/msftdrm.txt\">Cory at Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/04_32\/b3895106_mz063.htm\">The zombie armies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, it&#8217;s not all about the internet, except it is. It&#8217;s about what happens when you hook a lot of computers to a telecom infrastructure. It&#8217;s what Skynet really looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like all of society as we knew it is kind of coming apart, something I hyperbolically declaimed would happen in my attention seeking drama laden way in the mid 90s, when I was trying to explain the internet to people like the California Banker&#8217;s Association. I had no idea I was right. Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,9],"tags":[26,188,27,7],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-journalism","category-politics-in-america","tag-global-stuff","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}