{"id":872,"date":"2003-06-28T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2020-08-20T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T19:20:11","slug":"computers-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/computers-from-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers from the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Something about the Hulk movie &#8211; and in fact, many other films I&#8217;ve seen recently: Apple Macs have taken over. They&#8217;re in labs, on desks, people have them for laptops&#8230; I guess it&#8217;s because they look good. (Also, Product Placement.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want a Mac because I want to feel like I&#8217;m using a computer from the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Lisa pointed out to me, much of my time at home computer-wise is spent browsing the web, newsgroups and email. Which could be performed quite satisfactorily on an Apple Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could even find an alternative diary\/weblog application. The app I use on Windows, CityDesk, works, but it is hardly addictively enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, the real sticking point is my investment in Windows-based music software, and the fact that as long as I can work some of the time at home, I&#8217;d need a PC\/Windows box on my desk as well, reminding me constantly that I am not, in fact, using computers from the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about the Hulk movie &#8211; and in fact, many other films I&#8217;ve seen recently: Apple Macs have taken over. They&#8217;re in labs, on desks, people have them for laptops&#8230; I guess it&#8217;s because they look good. (Also, Product Placement.) I want a Mac because I want to feel like I&#8217;m using a computer from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}