{"id":2819,"date":"2011-01-12T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/de20f1a9e7af7c90"},"modified":"2011-03-09T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T07:48:06","slug":"question-at-no-point-in-history-did-nerds-play-a-large-role-intellectual-influence-social-economic-power-outside-academia-narrow-exceptions-bill-gates-is-my-statement-true-can-thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/question-at-no-point-in-history-did-nerds-play-a-large-role-intellectual-influence-social-economic-power-outside-academia-narrow-exceptions-bill-gates-is-my-statement-true-can-thi\/","title":{"rendered":"Question. At no point in history did nerds play a large role&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question. At no point in history did nerds play a large role (intellectual influence, social &amp; economic power), outside academia &amp; narrow exceptions (bill gates). Is my statement true? Can this change? If so, would such world be sustainable? Would it implode? (Pls note the distinction nerd v\/s nonnerd intellectuals).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question. At no point in history did nerds play a large role (intellectual influence, social &amp; economic power), outside academia &amp; narrow exceptions (bill gates). Is my statement true? Can this change? If so, would such world be sustainable? Wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}