{"id":738,"date":"2007-05-10T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/738"},"modified":"2007-05-10T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T14:51:12","slug":"why-less-then-half-of-my-generation-even-bother-with-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/738","title":{"rendered":"Why Less Then Half Of My Generation Even Bother With PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot&#8230;&nbsp; The Pew Internet and American Life Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/213\/report_display.asp\">has released a report<\/a>  outlining who among us are using computers and computer technology regularly.&nbsp; About half of my generation hardly even bother with it all.&nbsp; God, I hope they&#8217;re not all getting their news from Fox&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/blogs\/technology_news\/4216501.html\">Popular Mechanics&#8217; columnist Glenn Derene asks<\/a>  &quot;What keeps the personal computer from being a universally accepted technology?&quot;&nbsp; Let me hazard a guess&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"292\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/illop.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Memo To A Certain Someone Down In Orlando: Yes&#8230;I know.&nbsp; Computer technology can be a real bear sometimes.&nbsp; And my trade is largely responsible for that, and I&#8217;m sorry.&nbsp; We should listen to the people who have to use the stuff we create better then we do.&nbsp; But there is a whole wide wonderful and enriching world out there that you&#8217;re missing.&nbsp; A world where a casual stroll down a trail can take you from Mark Twain to H.L. Mencken to Einstein to the study of extra-solar planets.&nbsp; The blazes on these trails span the written word to the spoken one, to new music, paintings, photography from all over the world.&nbsp; An afternoon hike can take you across time and space, <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2004\/07\/\">to the light from near the beginning of time<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s worth the hassle it often still is.&nbsp; Really.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot&#8230;&nbsp; The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report outlining who among us are using computers and computer technology regularly.&nbsp; About half of my generation hardly even bother with it all.&nbsp; God, I hope they&#8217;re not all getting their news from Fox&#8230; Popular Mechanics&#8217; columnist Glenn Derene asks &quot;What keeps the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-computer-geeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}