{"id":1098,"date":"2008-04-04T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2008-04-04T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:39:28","slug":"joseph_weizenba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Weizenbaum: an appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Edge<\/i> has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/carr08\/carr08_index.html\">Eliza&#8217;s World<\/a>, a brief article I wrote about Joseph Weizenbaum, who died last month. It begins with my favorite sentence from Weizenbaum&#8217;s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0716704633\/amazingbooks0b0\">Computer Power and Human Reason<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his world?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/carr08\/carr08_index.html\">Read on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge has posted Eliza&#8217;s World, a brief article I wrote about Joseph Weizenbaum, who died last month. It begins with my favorite sentence from Weizenbaum&#8217;s classic Computer Power and Human Reason: &#8220;What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}