{"id":25562,"date":"2010-06-09T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/09\/technology-things-you-need-to\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T10:59:40","slug":"technology-things-you-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/technology-things-you-need-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology things you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erratasec.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/cyberwar-is-fiction.html\">Cyberwar<\/a> is a fiction, but <a href=\"http:\/\/infoworld.com\/d\/adventures-in-it\/faith-in-numbers-six-more-tech-cults-846\">tech cults<\/a> are not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes these cults are inspired by elegant lines of code. Other times it&#8217;s dedication to an ideal. Some are looking to transform the way software is made. Others hope to transform humanity itself. And some just want to argue about it all &#8212; endlessly and at great length.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/emacs\/\">Who would ever do that?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are certainly familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0016ZQI6I?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0016ZQI6I\">Dublin Wellington Boots &#8211; Size 9 Green<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0016ZQI6I\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (they&#8217;ve been mentioned here, as has their link to evolutionary biology).  Well, now there are Wellies that can power your cell phone.  <a href=\"http:\/\/recombu.com\/news\/orange-power-wellies-charge-your-mobile-using-heat-from-your-feet_M11809.html\">Supposedly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/hanging-up-on-the-phone-book\/article1594065\/\">no more phone books<\/a> in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyberwar is a fiction, but tech cults are not. Sometimes these cults are inspired by elegant lines of code. Other times it&#8217;s dedication to an ideal. Some are looking to transform the way software is made. Others hope to transform humanity itself. And some just want to argue about it all &#8212; endlessly and at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/technology-things-you-need-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technology things you need to know<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ei","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}