{"id":1241,"date":"2004-06-27T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/06\/27\/the_technological_white_lie.html"},"modified":"2004-06-27T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T23:22:44","slug":"the_technological_white_lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/06\/27\/the_technological_white_lie.html","title":{"rendered":"the technological (white) lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I firmly believe that people do not actually want to have technological precision; they want their technology to be able to permit a certain level of deception.  Perhaps you&#8217;ve been known to say &#8220;My spam filter must&#8217;ve eaten it&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m going under a bridge so i might lose you&#8221; even though you know that these are (white) lies.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/26\/technology\/26ALIB.html\">For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi<\/a>, a few mobile phone users have taken this to a new level.  They&#8217;ve developed a network of people who aid each other in developing and maintaining deception via mobiles.<\/p>\n<p>(tx <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/profile\/kevinmarks\/4557\/ed7d66b6fa23019e58ce6c821070ef0f\">Kevin<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I firmly believe that people do not actually want to have technological precision; they want their technology to be able to permit a certain level of deception. Perhaps you&#8217;ve been known to say &#8220;My spam filter must&#8217;ve eaten it&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m going under a bridge so i might lose you&#8221; even though you know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}