{"id":1898,"date":"2009-11-15T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/11\/techwology-a-friend-in-useless-times\/"},"modified":"2009-11-15T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:23:02","slug":"techwology-a-friend-in-useless-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/11\/techwology-a-friend-in-useless-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Techwology: A Friend in Useless Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People need help, don&#8217;t they?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>I mean, people are confused. They don&#8217;t understand what they have, or if they do, what they can achieve with it.. right?<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I&#8217;m talking about most people here, not this blessed 10% of highly active motivated magicians. I mean people who list things and seek &#8220;experts&#8221;. People who read &#8220;a life-changing book&#8221; and thereafter pin everything good that happens on the book. Money, love, health, status. Useless!<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>It&#8217;s not their fault. Society bends them out of shape before they even notice. People pin all kinds of hope on new shiny things. Anything.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>. . These are the Tech Temples of our misguided age. iPhone. Blackberry. Droid. The orb, wand, and sceptre.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Yes. Who doesn&#8217;t need help? Mostly, though, people need help from being &#8220;rescued&#8221;. Mostly people need help from being rescued from &#8220;solutions&#8221;. Technology as a solution being the big illusion we all buy into..<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I call it .<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/nanophilosophy\/lFcCGotDmAylvgsedBbIshCBhhqAzdpwdHrFHyjiDAopcpDgvckbGlivmpjd\/media_httpfarm1staticflickrcom1653307508501bd85af4a9jpg_tJxcbqbsyJgoHcw.jpg.scaled500.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\"\/> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/nanophilosophy.org\/techwology-a-friend-in-useless-times\">Preposterous Guru<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People need help, don&#8217;t they? I mean, people are confused. They don&#8217;t understand what they have, or if they do, what they can achieve with it.. right? I&#8217;m talking about most people here, not this blessed 10% of highly active motivated magicians. I mean people who list things and seek &#8220;experts&#8221;. People who read &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,294],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","category-society","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}