{"id":9665,"date":"2007-07-31T18:37:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9665"},"modified":"2007-07-31T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T18:37:59","slug":"sad-commentary-on-person-tech-here-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9665","title":{"rendered":"Sad Commentary on Person Tech, Here in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Manes has a sad-but-true editorial in PC World about the continued crummy state of personal tech &#8220;user-surliness,&#8221; here in the early hours of the 21st century: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Concepts that seem obvious to those of us who cultivate technical savvy are utterly alien to the nontech majority&#8211;with good reason, since most products, services, and technologies aren&#8217;t nearly as simple as techies and tech companies would like to believe. Just ask anybody with half a dozen remotes on the coffee table and a spouse who merely wants to watch a pay-cable show&#8211;even without the complication of getting it to play through a home audio system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Read the rest of the piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,134893-page,1-c,techsupport\/article.html\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>. <\/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>Steven Manes has a sad-but-true editorial in PC World about the continued crummy state of personal tech &#8220;user-surliness,&#8221; here in the early hours of the 21st century: Concepts that seem obvious to those of us who cultivate technical savvy are utterly alien to the nontech majority&#8211;with good reason, since most products, services, and technologies aren&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sad Commentary on Person Tech, Here in the 21st Century&#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-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","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=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}