{"id":9294,"date":"2006-11-06T18:41:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2006-11-06T18:41:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:41:14","slug":"scariest-tech-of-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9294","title":{"rendered":"Scariest Tech of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/bluray_hddvd.jpg\">Peter Lewis of Fortune did a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/popups\/2006\/fortune\/scary_tech\/index.html\" target=\"new\">right-on list<\/a> of the scariest, gnarliest, most user-surly tech (and tech-related media and developments) for 2006. We couldn&#8217;t agree more. <\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s the list. Hit the link to read his wonderful descriptions (e.g. On Vonage: &#8220;I&#8217;m a Vonage customer and I never know when the service is going to be clear, or scratchy, or when it&#8217;s going to cough up a hairball of old voicemail. And customer service? Remember Riff Raff, the servant in The Rocky Horror Picture Show? It&#8217;s like that.&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p> The List (Be Ashamed. Be Very Ashamed.):<\/p>\n<p> 1. Sony Li-On Batteries<br \/> 2. Amazon Unbox<br \/> 3. Vonage\/VoIP<br \/> 4, HP Ethics<br \/> 5. MS Vista<br \/> 6. RIAA&#8217;s &#8220;Campus Download&#8221; (think: &#8220;Reefer Madness&#8221; for file sharing)<br \/> 7. Blu-ray\/HD-DVD<br \/> 8. Paperless Voting Machines<br \/> 9. &#8220;Ultra-Mobile&#8221; PCs (not!)<br \/> 10. The Wii (the name, the name!)<br \/> 11. X-Men: The Official Game<br \/> 12. Stay Alive (a movie about games that can kill) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Lewis of Fortune did a right-on list of the scariest, gnarliest, most user-surly tech (and tech-related media and developments) for 2006. We couldn&#8217;t agree more. Here&#8217;s the list. Hit the link to read his wonderful descriptions (e.g. On Vonage: &#8220;I&#8217;m a Vonage customer and I never know when the service is going to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scariest Tech of 2006&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}