{"id":2066,"date":"2009-07-08T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2010-07-11T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T16:31:15","slug":"the-nature-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-nature-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(2010) W. Brian Arthur<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #ff3300; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/erudition\/Arthur_TheNatureOfTechnology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2001\" title=\"Goethe_Faust\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/erudition\/Arthur_TheNatureOfTechnology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>Ambitiously, this book promises to offer a cohesive model for technological progression. Instead, we find a repetitive miss-mash of ill-defined concepts, knotted together through liberal usage of clich\u00c3\u00a9d analogies &#8211; &#8220;technology is like language&#8221;, &#8220;technology is like Darwinian evolution&#8221;, etc., etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Highly disappointing.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2010) W. Brian Arthur Ambitiously, this book promises to offer a cohesive model for technological progression. Instead, we find a repetitive miss-mash of ill-defined concepts, knotted together through liberal usage of clich\u00c3\u00a9d analogies &#8211; &#8220;technology is like language&#8221;, &#8220;technology is like Darwinian evolution&#8221;, etc., etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Highly disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civilization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}