{"id":3908,"date":"2013-10-26T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2013-10-26T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T16:27:21","slug":"listen-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"Listen to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/993.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3909\" alt=\"Kiewit Computation Center 1966\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/993.jpg?resize=500%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/993.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/993.jpg?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be giving a couple of talks in the Northeast next week. Both are free and open to the public. On Monday, I&#8217;ll be in Hanover, New Hampshire, to give a lecture at my alma mater, Dartmouth College. (Details <a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.edu\/events\/event?event=25923\">here<\/a>.) And on Wednesday I&#8217;ll be in Buffalo to speak at Medaille College. (Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medaille.edu\/events\/2013-10-30\/author-nicholas-carr-speak-medaille-college\">here<\/a>.) If you&#8217;re in either area, please come by.<\/p>\n<p>That fuzzy picture up there, incidentally, is of Dartmouth&#8217;s Kiewit Computation Center, where, in the late 1970s, I first touched a digital computer \u2014 more precisely, a terminal connected to the school&#8217;s mainframe time-sharing system. Kiewit was torn down in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Dartmouth College.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be giving a couple of talks in the Northeast next week. Both are free and open to the public. On Monday, I&#8217;ll be in Hanover, New Hampshire, to give a lecture at my alma mater, Dartmouth College. (Details here.) And on Wednesday I&#8217;ll be in Buffalo to speak at Medaille College. (Details here.) If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}