{"id":5620,"date":"2008-01-08T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:08","slug":"the-future-is-not-vending-mach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-future-is-not-vending-mach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Not Vending Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFor at least 30 years the Japanese have sold almost everything you can imagine in vending machines. I seen batteries, books, and beer for sale in street-side vending machines. I always thought it would be a phenom that would spread to the rest of the world, but it never has. There&#8217;s still a weird and wild selection of vending machine themes in Japan (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirkyjapan.or.tv\/vending.html\">Quirky Japan<\/a> for some examples), but sadly this future has never taken hold elsewhere (that I am aware of). The moral of this story is that while the future is unevenly distributed, so are deadends.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/lobster.gif\" height=\"428\" width=\"409\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lobster\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Live lobsters! You have to catch one with the crane.&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/eggvendingmachine.gif\" height=\"240\" width=\"153\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Eggvendingmachine\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFresh eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For at least 30 years the Japanese have sold almost everything you can imagine in vending machines. I seen batteries, books, and beer for sale in street-side vending machines. I always thought it would be a phenom that would spread &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-future-is-not-vending-mach\/\">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":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620"}],"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=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}