{"id":229,"date":"2010-10-24T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2010-10-24T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T05:40:22","slug":"program-or-be-programmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/229","title":{"rendered":"Program or be Programmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading J\u00fcrgen&#8217;s blog post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/the-gay-bar.com\/2010\/10\/21\/the-computer-as-an-appliance\/\">The computer as an appliance<\/a>&#8221; on Friday, I followed the link he placed to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Rushkoff\">Douglas Rushkoff<\/a>&#8216;s latest book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbooks.com\/our-books\/program\/\">Program or be Programmed<\/a>&#8220;. The great title alone sparked my interest, and the description on the publisher&#8217;s page got me to immediately order an e-book copy. A few seconds later I started reading it (it comes in multiple formats &#8211; I chose to read the EPUB version with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldiko.com\/\">Aldiko<\/a> on my Android phone &#8211; it&#8217;s a great way to read a book!)<\/p>\n<p>So, just finished it, and I really liked it. It got me thinking a lot, and examining my own life in the Digital World. It also gave me a new perspective on anonymity on the net.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas, thanks for your great work! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading J\u00fcrgen&#8217;s blog post &#8220;The computer as an appliance&#8221; on Friday, I followed the link he placed to Douglas Rushkoff&#8216;s latest book, &#8220;Program or be Programmed&#8220;. The great title alone sparked my interest, and the description on the publisher&#8217;s page got me to immediately order an e-book copy. A few seconds later I started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Program or be Programmed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}