{"id":2491,"date":"2017-08-10T01:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T06:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:18:49","slug":"forward-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/08\/forward-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward to the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once again, our new &#8220;technology&#8221; brings us back to where we started a few decades ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I walk into Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a long line.<\/p>\n<p>So I sit in my usual spot and start my Internet work.<\/p>\n<p>I order my coffee and bagel on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes into work I walk over and pick up my order.<\/p>\n<p>I have turned a stand-and-order restaurant into a sit-and-order restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, all this technology takes me back to the 1960s or something. We sat in restaurants, ordered, and did something until the food arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Stand-and-order is okay sometimes. Sit-and-order is okay some times.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there is some value in choice, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it seems this mobile app order was intended to do something new or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Once again, our new &#8220;technology&#8221; brings us back to where we started a few decades ago. Recently&#8230; I walk into Starbucks. And there is a long line. So I sit in my usual spot and start my Internet work. I order my coffee and bagel on my phone. Five minutes into work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,265,51,3],"tags":[143,266,173,126],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-childhood","category-choose","category-technology","tag-change","tag-childhood","tag-choose","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}