{"id":402,"date":"2010-11-20T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:25:15","slug":"anzo-penzias-things-to-remember-about-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/402\/tech-notes\/anzo-penzias-things-to-remember-about-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Anzo Penzias &#8211; Things to Remember about Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol>\n<li>Computer ownership doesn&#8217;t guarantee computer literacy.<\/li>\n<li>Logic is cumbersome; that&#8217;s why humans rarely use it.<\/li>\n<li>Computers don&#8217;t contain &#8220;brains&#8221; any more than stereos contain musical instruments.<\/li>\n<li>Machines only manipulate numbers; people connect them to meaning.<\/li>\n<li>An inexact number is almost always good enough.<\/li>\n<li>Computers are just fast calculators pushing their own buttons.<\/li>\n<li>Digital information travels better, like mailing cookie recipes instead of cookies.<\/li>\n<li>Computers are like cars &#8211; they&#8217;re great for speed, but you have to steer them.<\/li>\n<li>People run too many errands for their machines, especially if they think they have to.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t want to be replaced by a machine, don&#8217;t act like one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[from Anzo Penzias, <em>Ideas and Information<\/em>, 1989]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer ownership doesn&#8217;t guarantee computer literacy. Logic is cumbersome; that&#8217;s why humans rarely use it. Computers don&#8217;t contain &#8220;brains&#8221; any more than stereos contain musical instruments. Machines only manipulate numbers; people connect them to meaning. An inexact number is almost always good enough. Computers are just fast calculators pushing their own buttons. Digital information travels <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/402\/tech-notes\/anzo-penzias-things-to-remember-about-computers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-notes","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}