{"id":5348,"date":"2012-12-21T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2012-12-21T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:42:54","slug":"the-surprising-truth-technology-is-aging-in-reverse-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-surprising-truth-technology-is-aging-in-reverse-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Truth: Technology Is Aging in Reverse | Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In general, the older the technology, not only is it expected to last longer \u2013 but the more certainty I can attach to such a statement. Here\u2019s the key principle: I am not saying that all technologies don\u2019t age, only that those technologies that were prone to aging are already dead.<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely because the world is getting more technological, that the old has a huge advantage over the new.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s take the idea beyond technology for a moment. If there\u2019s something in the culture \u2013 say, a practice or a religion that you don\u2019t understand \u2013 yet has been done for a long time \u2013 don\u2019t call it \u201cirrational.\u201d And: Don\u2019t expect the practice to discontinue.<\/p>\n<p>Some things are opaque to us humans. Those things can only be revealed by time, which understands things we humans are unable to explain. But this method allows us to figure out how time and things work without quite getting inside the complexity of time\u2019s mind. Time is scientifically equivalent to disorder, and things that gain from disorder are what this author calls \u201cantifragile.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2012\/12\/worlds-not-ending-but-technologys-aging-backwards\/?cid=5062364\">The Surprising Truth: Technology Is Aging in Reverse | Wired Opinion | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, the older the technology, not only is it expected to last longer \u2013 but the more certainty I can attach to such a statement. Here\u2019s the key principle: I am not saying that all technologies don\u2019t age, only that those technologies that were prone to aging are already dead. It is precisely because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}