{"id":25610,"date":"2011-02-24T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/geek-luddites-watts-martin\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:00:07","slug":"geek-luddites-watts-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/geek-luddites-watts-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek luddites | Watts Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/chipotle.tumblr.com\/post\/1432038656\/geek-luddites'>Geek luddites | Watts Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mnmal.org\/post\/1487027032\/geek-luddites-watts-martin\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mnmal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The model we\u2019re moving toward, though, is premised on the idea that computers shouldn\u2019t require routine tech support. Again, look back at game consoles: an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 is a fully programmable computer with networking capability, offline storage, removable media, the whole shebang, yet all of that is invisible to the user. What file system does a Playstation use and what directories does it put your downloaded games in? The correct answer is: \u201cWho gives a shit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And if what you do with a computer is spreadsheets and flow charts and word processing documents and slide presentations, web browsing and media watching and game playing, even recording music and editing photographs and writing text adventures, there\u2019s an excellent case to be made that you should not have to give a shit about any of that, either. But right now\u2014no matter what platform you\u2019re using\u2014you kinda do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is what I\u2019ve been ranting about for a few years and several posts in here. The whole post is really interesting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek luddites | Watts Martin mnmal: The model we\u2019re moving toward, though, is premised on the idea that computers shouldn\u2019t require routine tech support. Again, look back at game consoles: an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 is a fully programmable computer with networking capability, offline storage, removable media, the whole shebang, yet all of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6F4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}