{"id":1950,"date":"2019-05-15T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2019-05-15T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:58:44","slug":"a-difficult-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/a-difficult-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Difficult Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ford on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/why-we-love-tech-defense-difficult-industry\/\">tech industry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No one loves tech for tech\u2019s sake. All of this was about power\u2014power over the way stories were told, the ability to say things on my own terms. The aesthetic of technology is an aesthetic of power\u2014CPU speed, sure, but what do you think we\u2019re talking about when we talk about \u201cdesign\u201d? That\u2019s just a proxy for power; design is about control, about presenting the menu to others and saying, \u201cThese are the options you wanted. <em>I\u2019m sorry if you wanted a roast beef sandwich, but sir, this is not an Arby\u2019s.<\/em>\u201d That is Apple\u2019s secret: It commoditizes the power of a computer and sells it to you as design.<\/p>\n<p>Technology is a whole world that looks nothing like the world it seeks to command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Ford on the tech industry: No one loves tech for tech\u2019s sake. All of this was about power\u2014power over the way stories were told, the ability to say things on my own terms. The aesthetic of technology is an aesthetic of power\u2014CPU speed, sure, but what do you think we\u2019re talking about when we&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/a-difficult-industry\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}