{"id":192,"date":"2004-12-03T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T06:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2004-12-03T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T23:49:09","slug":"technophile-or-hipster-doofus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Technophile or hipster-doofus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Online tells the story of Mary Hodder, a contributor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napsterization.org\">napsterization.org<\/a>, and apparent technophile to the ultimate power, and then tries &#8211; in vain, in my opinion &#8211; to equate her life to what&#8217;s ahead for all of us.  Honestly, her tale vexes me.  Is she ultimately with it, horribly chained to technology, or just a technogeek bafoon without a clue?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even in a car, on a train or sidewalk she carries on simultaneous conversations with friends, associates, clients and business contacts via e-mail, instant messaging and talking on her cell phone. And while she refers to the material world as old-style &#8220;analog,&#8221; the internet is strictly &#8220;digital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All right, <em>someone<\/em> has fallen off the clue wagon.  The real world is old-style <em>analog?<\/em>  No, dear, you&#8217;ve just shown the real world that you don&#8217;t know what &#8220;analog&#8221; means.  Allow me to enlighten:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=analog\">an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Mary Hodder cutting-edge, or just a technogeek bafoon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}