{"id":38512,"date":"2011-02-23T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/optimism-monday-july-5-2010-the-final-thing\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:00:07","slug":"optimism-monday-july-5-2010-the-final-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/optimism-monday-july-5-2010-the-final-thing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>optimism <br \/>\nmonday, july 5, 2010 <br \/>\n\u201cThe final thing I\u2019d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you\u2019d wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you\u2019d still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/scraplab.net\/2010\/07\/05\/optimism\/\">scraplab \u2014 Optimism<\/a> Clay Shirky, in interview with Decca Aitkenhead of the Guardian.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>optimism monday, july 5, 2010 \u201cThe final thing I\u2019d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-a1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38512","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=38512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}