{"id":177,"date":"2009-09-12T21:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-09-12T21:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T04:23:01","slug":"technology-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/12\/technology-is\/","title":{"rendered":"TECHNOLOGY IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As text is the word itself, technology is the means by which to share the text. This can take many forms from the most ancient of the scroll to the modern computer applications. To me technology as a process is something subtle, but wide reaching. Something which, for better or worse, slithers its way into society changing all elements of daily life, communication, thought process and our world view. The process reminds me of the erosion of cliffs which stand strong for many years, but with years of wear, wind, and climate change are made anew. Yet,\u00a0they continue to stand, but in a different and more refined way. This is why I have chosen the image of the Cliffs of Morr in Ireland. They are much like the process and evolution of technology-\u00a0strong and stealth, but ever changing as time and events alter their shape, their scope and their breadth.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-178\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/12\/technology-is\/cliffs-of-moor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-178\" title=\"Cliffs of Moor\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/Cliffs-of-Moor.jpg\" alt=\"Cliffs of Moor\" width=\"68\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As text is the word itself, technology is the means by which to share the text. This can take many forms from the most ancient of the scroll to the modern computer applications. To me technology as a process is something subtle, but wide reaching. Something which, for better or worse, slithers its way into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[6808],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}