{"id":7949,"date":"2020-04-06T07:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7949"},"modified":"2020-04-06T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:57:52","slug":"the-most-important-technology-critic-in-the-world-was-tired-of-knowledge-based-on-clicks-so-he-built-an-antidote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7949","title":{"rendered":"The most important technology critic in the world was tired of knowledge based on clicks. So he built an antidote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecorrespondent.com\/369\/the-most-important-technology-critic-in-the-world-was-tired-of-knowledge-based-on-clicks-so-he-built-an-antidote\/789698745-92d7c0ee#comments\">Maurits Martijn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spring, 2018. Evgeny Morozov is standing on a rubber mat in a hotel room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The world\u2019s foremost technology critic is scared. He\u2019s afraid of dying knowing that there are books he doesn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds, maybe thousands, of books are strewn around the room. On the floor, on the chair, on the bed, under the bed, next to the bed. There\u2019s an open book on a desk in front of him. He uses an iPad to snap pictures of its pages, flipping them at great speed with two fingers. On a good day, he scans 100 pages per minute, 12 books in an hour, 100 in one day.<\/p>\n<p>Morozov scans books he believes he should read someday. He knows which ones to read because he has devised a system that can determine the relevance of every book in the world. And his system isn\u2019t just for books. It\u2019s for all information and knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurits Martijn: Spring, 2018. Evgeny Morozov is standing on a rubber mat in a hotel room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The world\u2019s foremost technology critic is scared. He\u2019s afraid of dying knowing that there are books he doesn\u2019t know about. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of books are strewn around the room. On the floor, on the chair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949"}],"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=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7950,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions\/7950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}