{"id":1429,"date":"2010-05-12T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2012-05-23T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:35:47","slug":"the-internet-is-killing-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2010\/05\/the-internet-is-killing-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"the internet is killing computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was thinking&#8230;I have my computer open all the time and I go check it a million times a day.<\/p>\n<p>But what am I really checking? What work am I doing?<\/p>\n<p>It seems that all I do is throw away spam mail, re read the stuff my friends sent me, and follow intriguing links on the margins of my email homepage.<\/p>\n<p>I pride myself on not spending time on reality tv, but I&#8217;m just as much a consumer of mental cotton fluff as any national enquirer reader.<\/p>\n<p>I am a consumer of content father than a creator of content. I think it&#8217;s time to step away from the internet. I shoudl not be wired.<\/p>\n<p>Having a computer in front of me, and NOT having it connected is almost as antiquated as a fountain pen.<\/p>\n<p>But what is this coming to?<\/p>\n<p>Computers, and the people who love them, should not need the internet. Have we forgotten how powerful this device is all on it&#8217;s very own?<\/p>\n<p>I have. I think I need to shut it off. Unplug and go play with some SOFTWARE for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was thinking&#8230;I have my computer open all the time and I go check it a million times a day. But what am I really checking? What work am I doing? It seems that all I do is throw &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2010\/05\/the-internet-is-killing-computers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attempts-at-profundity","category-bookworthy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}