{"id":3557,"date":"2009-02-23T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:18:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-23T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T07:36:38","slug":"so-amazing-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/so-amazing-but\/","title":{"rendered":"So Amazing, But Nobody is Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&#8220;Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren&#8217;t perfect. This comedian&#8217;s routine on the Conan O&#8217;Brien show is funny, mocking our ingratitude. I post it here because the rant is a cartoon version of a more serious argument that we become blind to progress.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEnjoy:\n<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"https:\/\/images.multiply.com\/multiply\/multv.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"420\" FLASHVARS=\"first_video_id=barefootmeg:video:56&#38;base_uri=multiply.com&#38;is_owned=1&#38;security=aNnuU5z25dTCgruwfMAEag\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" quality=\"high\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.&#8221; It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren&#8217;t perfect. This comedian&#8217;s routine on the Conan O&#8217;Brien show is funny, mocking our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/so-amazing-but\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}