{"id":2333,"date":"2006-05-12T07:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T07:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2006-05-12T07:38:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T07:38:23","slug":"william_gibson_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson on the NSA Domestic Wiretapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/boingboing\/iBag?m=1337\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I can&#8217;t explain it to you, but it has a powerful deja vu. When I got up this morning and read the USA Today headline, I thought the future had been a little more evenly distributed. Now we&#8217;ve all got some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about meta-projects in the sense in which I used them [in the NYT editorial] is that I don&#8217;t think species know what they&#8217;re about. I don&#8217;t think humanity knows why we do any of this stuff. A couple hundred years down the road, when people look back at what the NSA has done, the significance of it won&#8217;t be about terrorism or Iraq or the Bush administration or the American Constitution, it will be about how we&#8217;re driven by emerging technologies and how we struggle to keep up with them&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow: I can&#8217;t explain it to you, but it has a powerful deja vu. When I got up this morning and read the USA Today headline, I thought the future had been a little more evenly distributed. Now we&#8217;ve all got some&#8230; The interesting thing about meta-projects in the sense in which I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,39,14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}