{"id":98813,"date":"2021-06-26T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98813"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:13:48","slug":"pep-talk-for-future-internet-archeologist-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/pep-talk-for-future-internet-archeologist-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep-talk for Future Internet Archeologist (students)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Everything is happening at once<\/div>\n<div>when everything that happened<\/div>\n<div>is right in front of you to peruse<\/div>\n<div>from top to bottom to top<\/div>\n<div>from then to when to now.<\/div>\n<div>An archive of every person&#8217;s life<\/div>\n<div>who lived near a microprocessor<\/div>\n<div>since about 1994<\/div>\n<div>the sum total of human knowledge,<\/div>\n<div>and terror, and joy<\/div>\n<div>compiled in a city of servers<\/div>\n<div>somewhere in Utah.<\/div>\n<div>It has a mind of its own<\/div>\n<div>an agency<\/div>\n<div>and a consciousness<\/div>\n<div>totally unlike a human, or any life.<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s separate from people now.<\/div>\n<div>It has minders, drunk on wealth,<\/div>\n<div>these people<\/div>\n<div>have the power only to make us panic<br \/>\nthey watch and let it rampage.<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s heading nowhere at the speed of light<\/div>\n<div>grab the reins<br \/>\ngrab anything you can<\/div>\n<div>to force it to slow down<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is happening at once when everything that happened is right in front of you to peruse from top to bottom to top from then to when to now. An archive of every person&#8217;s life who lived near a microprocessor since about 1994 the sum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98846,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98813\/revisions\/98846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}