{"id":2887,"date":"2011-02-07T05:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/15e5fff31d4c870c"},"modified":"2011-03-09T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T07:17:59","slug":"just-as-travel-time-in-london-is-worse-than-it-was-150-years-ago-i-believe-that-the-internet-because-of-the-extremely-high-noise-to-signal-ratio-makes-communication-slower-and-more-difficult-than-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/just-as-travel-time-in-london-is-worse-than-it-was-150-years-ago-i-believe-that-the-internet-because-of-the-extremely-high-noise-to-signal-ratio-makes-communication-slower-and-more-difficult-than-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Just as travel time in London is worse than it was 150 years ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as travel time in London is worse than it was 150 years ago, I believe that the internet, because of the extremely high noise to signal ratio, makes communication slower and more difficult than it was in the days of letters, telegrams, &amp; faxes. So, pace the technoidiots, it is very likely that twitter (the noisiest media) slowed down the riots in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as travel time in London is worse than it was 150 years ago, I believe that the internet, because of the extremely high noise to signal ratio, makes communication slower and more difficult than it was in the days of letters, telegrams, &amp; faxes&#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-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","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=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}