{"id":3672,"date":"2005-09-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/troubling-intro\/"},"modified":"2005-09-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T17:00:00","slug":"troubling-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/troubling-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubling Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An instructor in my program recently recommended <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1400046416\/qid=1126289885\/sr=8-3\/ref=pd_bbs_3\/103-6906175-9767041?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">It&#8217;s Alive, The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business<\/a><\/i>, and said she may use excerpts in her upcoming class.  Being the intrepid student I am, I went ahead and ordered it.<\/p>\n<p>I got three paragraphs into the introduction and was jarred by this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can we hope to predict what will happen in the decade to come if it&#8217;s going to be twice as different?<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t, in detail, any more than when a hurricane is declared in the Guld of Mexico we can predict precisely what&#8217;s going to happen in Massachusetts a week later.  But we can track the storm, and we can say in general terms where it&#8217;s going, even if we can&#8217;t describe the gusts and eddies that may prove horrific in Hilton Head or beneficial in Baton Rouge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that a horrific hurricane threat can be used as a workable analogy in a futurist book?  Yes, it&#8217;s time to crawl out from under the rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An instructor in my program recently recommended It&#8217;s Alive, The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business, and said she may use excerpts in her upcoming class. Being the intrepid student I am, I went ahead and ordered it. I got three paragraphs into the introduction and was jarred by this: How can we hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}