{"id":775,"date":"2015-05-25T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=775"},"modified":"2015-05-25T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T12:31:49","slug":"dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2015\/05\/25\/dont-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/05\/mooc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/05\/mooc-300x249.png\" alt=\"mooc\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/05\/mooc-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/05\/mooc.png 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 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>Episode 8\/8 Quintessential Phase 4 ( broadcast BBC Radio 4 23\/6\/05)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 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 part of the way things work. Anything which is invented in the first third of your &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],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","tag-dont-panic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}