{"id":1732,"date":"2006-12-08T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2006-12-08T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T12:51:43","slug":"what-could-hold-us-back-or-send-us-into-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"What could hold us back or send us into reverse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece on the <a href = \"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/stories\/45147\/\">lessons from the Antikythera Mechanism<\/a>, the ancient Greek computer whose secrets were recently disentangled. It is a variation on the much explored &#8220;why didn&#8217;t the ancients invent the internet&#8221; discussion, but using that to ask &#8220;what is holding us back, and what could send us backward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, and it seems like a pretty decent answer to me, is reliance on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece on the lessons from the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient Greek computer whose secrets were recently disentangled. It is a variation on the much explored &#8220;why didn&#8217;t the ancients invent the internet&#8221; discussion, but using that to ask &#8220;what is holding us back, and what could send us backward&#8221;. The answer, and it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}