{"id":1728,"date":"2014-07-17T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T06:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2014-06-30T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:10:57","slug":"did-you-notice-the-world-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/07\/did-you-notice-the-world-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Notice the World Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter and the World Cup show that the world changed. Most people, didn&#8217;t even notice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world changed. When I show people, they shrug. &#8220;Of course. What&#8217;s the big deal?&#8221; is the usual response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2014\/the-twitter-worldcup-group-stage-recap\">This web page<\/a> has a story about how 300 million people tweeted about the FIFA World Cup. So what? Note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the world is watching the same event at the same time<\/li>\n<li>Most of the world is corresponding to each other in real-time<\/li>\n<li>These two activities occur via a handheld, battery-powered device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first item has been available for a couple of decades. The second item has been available for maybe a couple of years. The third item is what I consider the magic. I walk about in the woods and follow the world each second. I hear the &#8220;official&#8221; version of history. I also hear the version from the guy standing on a street corner in Cairo or in the woods of Washington. And I tell these two guys what I think.<\/p>\n<p>The world has changed. Did you notice it changing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Twitter and the World Cup show that the world changed. Most people, didn&#8217;t even notice. The world changed. When I show people, they shrug. &#8220;Of course. What&#8217;s the big deal?&#8221; is the usual response. This web page has a story about how 300 million people tweeted about the FIFA World Cup. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[143,126],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-technology","tag-change","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}