{"id":377,"date":"2011-07-09T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanlowell.org\/tommw\/?p=377"},"modified":"2011-07-09T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T12:40:09","slug":"day-107-return-to-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/podcast\/day-107-return-to-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 107: Return to the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished reading Postman&#8217;s <em>Technopoly<\/em> and started on Hughes&#8217; <em>The Human-Built World<\/em>. His main thrust is that the sum of human&#8217;s technological innovation can be summed up by &#8220;we&#8217;re trying to recreate the Garden of Eden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I think he&#8217;s missing a few things &#8212; a few of his marbles, the odd brick, and the notion that by arbitrarily limiting his framing of the discussion, he&#8217;s directing the conclusion in advance. That rather diminishes his argument.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlowell\/5918400604\/\" title=\"#tommw 65F mostly cloudy, calm by nlowell, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6022\/5918400604_38e8d31dc6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#tommw 65F mostly cloudy, calm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3960\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-377-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/nathanlowell.org\/media\/2011-07\/tommw-2011-07-09.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanlowell.org\/media\/2011-07\/tommw-2011-07-09.mp3\">http:\/\/nathanlowell.org\/media\/2011-07\/tommw-2011-07-09.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanlowell.org\/media\/2011-07\/tommw-2011-07-09.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/?powerpress_pinw=377-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanlowell.org\/media\/2011-07\/tommw-2011-07-09.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tommw-2011-07-09.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished reading Postman&#8217;s Technopoly and started on Hughes&#8217; The Human-Built World. His main thrust is that the sum of human&#8217;s technological innovation can be summed up by &#8220;we&#8217;re trying to recreate the Garden of Eden.&#8221; Yeah. I think he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/podcast\/day-107-return-to-the-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}