{"id":5525,"date":"2013-11-18T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2013-11-18T06:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:39:39","slug":"snap-out-of-it-kids-arent-reliable-tech-predictors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Snap Out of It: Kids Aren&#8217;t Reliable Tech Predictors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/m.us.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702303559504579202623459037550?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks&#038;mobile=y\">Farhad Manjoo<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe the children aren&#8217;t our future. Teach them well, but when it comes to determining the next big thing in tech, let&#8217;s not fall victim to the ridiculous idea that they lead the way.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Yes, I&#8217;m talking about Snapchat.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Last week my colleagues reported that Facebook recently offered $3 billion to acquire the company behind the hyper-popular messaging app. Stunningly, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat&#8217;s 23-year-old co-founder and CEO, rebuffed the offer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farhad Manjoo: I believe the children aren&#8217;t our future. Teach them well, but when it comes to determining the next big thing in tech, let&#8217;s not fall victim to the ridiculous idea that they lead the way.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, I&#8217;m talking about Snapchat.&nbsp;&nbsp;Last week my colleagues reported that Facebook recently offered $3 billion to acquire the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/5525"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}