{"id":53,"date":"2022-12-15T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/?p=53"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:44:02","slug":"the-great-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/2022\/12\/15\/the-great-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wonder if some day we will look back on this era and wonder why we built systems that do everything in ALL CAPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I believe my attention and my time are my most precious possessions, should I also not  interject myself IN ALL CAPS onto other\u2019s attention and time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/10\/12\/science\/scientist-at-work-john-h-conway-at-home-in-the-elusive-world-of-mathematics.html\">John Conway<\/a> this website, install some lock you must pick to show your acknowledgment that by entering, you assent to the gift of your attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh Batleby, what brave new world is this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if some day we will look back on this era and wonder why we built systems that do everything in ALL CAPS. If I believe my attention and my time are my most precious possessions, should I also not interject myself IN ALL CAPS onto other\u2019s attention and time? Maybe I should John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/2022\/12\/15\/the-great-amplifier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Amplifier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/babel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}