{"id":2420,"date":"2003-05-18T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2003-05-18T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/voodo-technology\/"},"modified":"2003-05-18T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2003-05-18T20:44:50","slug":"voodo-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/18\/voodo-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Voodo technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBill Thompson’s article on the O’Reilly Etech hive mind<\/a> is killer, and a must-read for anyone who’s interested in the intersection of politics and technology. Here’s a teaser:<\/p>\n

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It seems that the A-list may soon have their first real-world political success, with their campaign to deregulate radio spectrum in the US – a move that uses a poor technological argument to push forward an assertion about the most efficient ways to allocate resources that would be remarkably familiar to any Reagan-style voodoo economists left over from the 1980s (7).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Voodoo technology” is a completely apt description of David Weinberger’s recent work, which is generally echoed uncritically by the fellow tech-topians who headlined Etech.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Thompson’s article on the O’Reilly Etech hive mind is killer, and a must-read for anyone who’s interested in the intersection of politics and technology. Here’s a teaser: It seems that the A-list may soon have their first real-world political success, with their campaign to deregulate radio spectrum in the US – a move that … Continue reading “Voodo technology”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-D2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}