{"id":368,"date":"2014-10-12T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=368"},"modified":"2014-10-12T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T15:51:43","slug":"emerging-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2014\/10\/12\/emerging-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"emerging technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/0041820c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-370 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/0041820c-237x300.jpg\" alt=\" John Playfair's Transit Theodolite\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/0041820c-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/0041820c-809x1024.jpg 809w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/0041820c.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Playfair&#8217;s Transit Theodolite\u00a0http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/6y5m06<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy\">Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<\/a> was published 35 years ago today.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAccording to the Guide* regardless of which world you are in,\u00a0 there are rules which determine the reaction of most life forms to emerging technologies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anything which is in your world when you are born is normal, ordinary and just a natural part of the way things work.<\/li>\n<li>Anything which is invented in the first third of your lifespan is new and exciting and revolutionary and you could probably get a career in it.<\/li>\n<li>Anything which is invented once you are middle aged is just against the natural order of things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Episode 8\/8 Quintessential Phase 4 ( broadcast BBC Radio 4 23\/6\/05)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was published 35 years ago today. According to the Guide* regardless of which world you are in,\u00a0 there are rules which determine the reaction of most life forms to emerging technologies: Anything which is in your world when you are born is normal, ordinary and just a natural &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,51,50],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","tag-dont-panic","tag-emerge","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}