{"id":19,"date":"2009-05-25T21:32:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T21:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-05-25T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T21:32:42","slug":"unplanned-obsolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Unplanned Obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>When I read that opening line from <em>Neuromancer<\/em> in the early &#8217;90s, it conveyed a powerful image using a technology-grounded metaphor that set the tone for the whole book. Now, just 25 years after it was published, it is in need of a footnote: the reader reading that book today, and increasingly so in a few years time, will still get a powerful image, but the image is <em>completely the wrong one!<\/em> Instead of a bleak, fuzzy sky, the image is of a deep saturated blue, with correspondingly different figurative implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.&#8221;\u00a0When I read that opening line from Neuromancer in the early &#8217;90s, it conveyed a powerful image using a technology-grounded metaphor that set the tone for the whole book. Now, just 25 years after it was published, it is in need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}