{"id":5131,"date":"2013-05-27T05:21:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2013-05-27T05:21:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:21:16","slug":"future-shlock-meet-the-two-world-hypothesis-and-its-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5131","title":{"rendered":"Future Shlock: Meet the two-world hypothesis and its havoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/113272\/eric-schmidt-and-jared-cohenthe-new-digital-ages-futurist-schlock#\">Evgeny Morozov<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And what of the almighty sewing machine? That great beacon of hope\u2014described as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Chief Contribution to Civilization\u201d in Singer\u2019s catalog from 1915\u2014did not achieve its cosmopolitan mission. (How little has changed: a few years ago, one of Twitter\u2019s co-founders described his company as a \u201ctriumph of humanity.\u201d) In 1989 the Singer company, in a deeply humiliating surrender to the forces of globalization, was sold off to a company owned by a Shanghai-born Canadian that went bankrupt a decade later. American machines, American brains, and American money were no longer American. One day Google, too, will fall. The good news is that, thanks in part to this superficial and megalomaniacal book, the company\u2019s mammoth intellectual ambitions will be preserved for posterity to study in a cautionary way. The virtual world of Google\u2019s imagination might not be real, but the glib arrogance of its executives definitely is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny Morozov: And what of the almighty sewing machine? That great beacon of hope\u2014described as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Chief Contribution to Civilization\u201d in Singer\u2019s catalog from 1915\u2014did not achieve its cosmopolitan mission. (How little has changed: a few years ago, one of Twitter\u2019s co-founders described his company as a \u201ctriumph of humanity.\u201d) In 1989 the Singer company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}