{"id":5852,"date":"2013-08-08T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2013-08-08T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:49:32","slug":"listening-post-the-smart-phone-that-ate-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/08\/08\/listening-post-the-smart-phone-that-ate-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: The smart phone that ate the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/08\/pacphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5854\" alt=\"pacphone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/08\/pacphone-300x161.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/08\/pacphone-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/08\/pacphone.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>First it ate the telephone and telephone wires<br \/>\nthen all the clocks and all their ticking.<br \/>\nIt sucked in the printing presses and<br \/>\nthe logging trucks that kept them fed.<br \/>\nThe tape recorder and the answering machine,<br \/>\nthe typewriters which are no more.<br \/>\nThe radio, movie theaters and TVs,<br \/>\neven the remote&#8211;the telegraph<br \/>\nand the post office have both fallen in.<\/p>\n<p>It ate the library and the bookstore,<br \/>\nand the living room bookcases,<br \/>\nthe stereo and the record store,<br \/>\nand my nine feet of vinyl LPs.<br \/>\nThe cartographer, the atlas,<br \/>\nand the gazette&#8211;all tamped down in.<br \/>\nThe social clubs, the stadium<br \/>\nthe notebook and the pen,<br \/>\nLarge stuff and small stuff,<br \/>\nall stuffed in.<\/p>\n<p>The camera and the photo album,<br \/>\nthe wallet and the little black book.<br \/>\nAll the computers and monitors,<br \/>\nkeyboards, cables and mice. The calculator<br \/>\nand the shopping cart. The weatherman<br \/>\nis inside it, and the anchorman.<br \/>\nAll the board games, casinos,<br \/>\npuzzles, toys. The fitness center,<br \/>\nthe coach, the tutor, the translator.<\/p>\n<p>All the stuffing has been removed<br \/>\nfrom all my stuff, leaving just this<br \/>\ndense rounded rectangle in my pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it ate the telephone and telephone wires<br \/>\nthen all the clocks and all their ticking.<br \/>\nIt [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}