{"id":180174,"date":"2017-07-01T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/01\/quote-of-the-day-59\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T01:32:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/01\/quote-of-the-day-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nothing against new ideas. Some of them might even be good ones! But just because a company is based in the Bay Area and does something on your smartphone doesn&#8217;t really make it &#8220;tech&#8221; at this point any more than something which uses that new-fangled electricity is tech.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2017\/07\/tech.html\">Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.&nbsp; Uber is basically a taxi service.&nbsp; Grubhub is food delivery.&nbsp; Air B&amp;B is a B&amp;B.&nbsp; Stubhub is a scalper.<\/p>\n<p>But all these guys think that they are geniuses of the first order, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 Internet. (or  because \u2026\u2026\u2026Smart Phone)<\/p>\n<p>This is why we find Silicon Valley to be a lot like <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the only way to keep the all balls into the air is to never stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing against new ideas. Some of them might even be good ones! But just because a company is based in the Bay Area and does something on your smartphone doesn&#8217;t really make it &#8220;tech&#8221; at this point any more than something which uses that new-fangled electricity is tech. \u2014Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black He&#8217;s right.&nbsp; Uber is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,387,504,382],"class_list":["post-180174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-hypocrisy","tag-philosophy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}