{"id":13087,"date":"2013-12-02T04:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/12\/02\/technology-is-usually-fairly-neutral-its-like-a\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T04:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:04:22","slug":"technology-is-usually-fairly-neutral-its-like-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/12\/02\/technology-is-usually-fairly-neutral-its-like-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Technology is usually fairly neutral. It\u2019s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone\u2019s home. The hammer doesn\u2019t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><strong>Noam Chomsky<\/strong>, answering a question from an 11-year-old named Honor on whether technology is always good. It\u2019s the perfect answer, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>Chomsky\u2019s words come from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571301932\/?tag=itsoktobesm-20\">Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am?<\/a>, a collection of young people\u2019s questions answered by great scientists and thinkers. It\u2019s ample proof that many of our greatest questions are simple ones, and their answers delight minds both brilliant and new.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out more great excerpts from the book at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/does-my-goldfish-know-who-i-am\/\">Brain Pickings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/\">jtotheizzoe<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is usually fairly neutral. It\u2019s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone\u2019s home. The hammer doesn\u2019t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad. Noam Chomsky, answering a question from an 11-year-old named Honor on whether technology &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/12\/02\/technology-is-usually-fairly-neutral-its-like-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5923,2517],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-good-answers","tag-technology","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}