{"id":24873,"date":"2022-10-27T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24873"},"modified":"2022-10-27T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:22:35","slug":"getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24873","title":{"rendered":"Getting better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a panel yesterday where the topic concerned the future of communications technology. At some point, someone in the audience asked a very interesting question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do the panelists think,&#8221; he asked (I&#8217;m paraphrasing), &#8220;that all of this advancement in communication technology is going to make society better? In what ways might it actually make things worse?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I replied with the first thought that entered my head. &#8220;Societies have always been dysfunctional,&#8221; I said. &#8220;They&#8217;re just getting better at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a panel yesterday where the topic concerned the future of communications technology. At some point, someone in the audience asked a very interesting question. &#8220;Do the panelists think,&#8221; he asked (I&#8217;m paraphrasing), &#8220;that all of this advancement in communication technology is going to make society better? In what ways might it actually &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting better&#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\/24873"}],"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=24873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24874,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24873\/revisions\/24874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}