{"id":1397,"date":"2007-09-01T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2007-09-01T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T20:58:03","slug":"william-gibson-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/william-gibson-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson, on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/quizpix\/skiffy_william.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\/>&#8220;Had nations better understood the potential of the Internet, I suspect they might well have strangled it in its cradle. Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/2003_05_01_archive.asp\">William Gibson<\/a><br \/>\nDirectors Guild of America\u2019s Digital Day<br \/>\nLos Angeles, May 17, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Had nations better understood the potential of the Internet, I suspect they might well have strangled it in its cradle. Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.&#8221; &#8212; William Gibson Directors Guild of America\u2019s Digital Day Los Angeles, May 17, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-my-book","category-tech-in-far-off-lands","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-mx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}