{"id":43550,"date":"2012-04-27T03:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-content-to-regard-the-internet-as-the-best-and\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T03:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:49:40","slug":"im-content-to-regard-the-internet-as-the-best-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-content-to-regard-the-internet-as-the-best-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man, but nonetheless a machine with a tin ear and a wooden tongue. It is one thing to browse the Internet; it is another thing to write for it.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still playing with toys. The Internet is blessed with undoubtedly miraculous applications, but language is not yet one of them. Absent the force of the human imagination and its powers of expression, our machines cannot accelerate the hope of political and social change, which stems from language that induces a change of heart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/\">Lapham\u2019s Quarterly<\/a><\/em> editor\u00a0<strong>Lewis Lapham<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/archive\/175532\/\">machine-made news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/21\/7-must-read-books-on-the-future-of-the-internet\/\">7 notable books on the future of information and the internet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man, but nonetheless a machine with a tin ear and a wooden tongue. It is one thing to browse the Internet; it is another thing to write for it. [\u2026] We\u2019re still playing with toys. The Internet is blessed with [&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":[1537],"class_list":["post-43550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bkq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43550","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=43550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}