{"id":433,"date":"2010-03-05T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/stephen-fry-on-technology-and-change\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:39:18","slug":"stephen-fry-on-technology-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/stephen-fry-on-technology-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry on Technology and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been checking out the BBC interviews on technology from the series called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/virtualrevolution\/\">The Virtual Revolution<\/a>.&#8221; Stephen Fry talks about how the driving force behind all the technological change isn&#8217;t the technology but the inherent human will to connect. He backs this up with some interesting stories about how letter writing, the post box, and novels changed society. I have written some similar ideas here about Twitter &#8211; how the press and others miss how it works (it is not an information distribution platform but a network creation tool). Anyway, I highly recommend the series because it represents a wide variety of interesting view points on technology.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"412\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/external\/player.swf\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fdigitalrevolution%2Fmedia%2Femp%2Fplaylists%2Fstephenfry_long%2Exml &amp;config_settings_showFooter=true&amp;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/external\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fdigitalrevolution%2Fmedia%2Femp%2Fplaylists%2Fstephenfry_long%2Exml&amp;config_settings_showFooter=true&amp;\" width=\"412\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/0f0ece9c-a331-434e-8f06-911171b0ab6a\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=0f0ece9c-a331-434e-8f06-911171b0ab6a\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been checking out the BBC interviews on technology from the series called &#8220;The Virtual Revolution.&#8221; Stephen Fry talks about how the driving force behind all the technological change isn&#8217;t the technology but the inherent human will to connect. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/stephen-fry-on-technology-and-change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,45,114,126,59],"tags":[943],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-connectivism","category-history","category-technology","category-twitter","tag-stephen-fry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}