{"id":17165,"date":"2016-03-21T19:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17165"},"modified":"2016-03-21T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:56:55","slug":"some-things-never-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17165","title":{"rendered":"Some things never change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching the Netflix series <i>Halt and Catch Fire<\/i> about computer entrepreneurs in the 1980s.  I very much appreciate the fact that the heroes are mostly computer programmers or hardware hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is all absolutely spot-on.  Every detail, no matter how arcane or nerdy, is completely correct and chronologically accurate.  Clearly somebody on the writing or advisory team was actually there.<\/p>\n<p>But what really intrigues me is that feeling of heady possibility, of creating an astonishing future that you know is just around the corner.  It&#8217;s exactly what being in computer graphics felt like to me when I was just starting out.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s exactly what it feels like now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching the Netflix series Halt and Catch Fire about computer entrepreneurs in the 1980s. I very much appreciate the fact that the heroes are mostly computer programmers or hardware hackers. The technology is all absolutely spot-on. Every detail, no matter how arcane or nerdy, is completely correct and chronologically accurate. Clearly somebody on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some things never change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17166,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions\/17166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}