{"id":431,"date":"2006-06-20T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=431"},"modified":"2006-06-20T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T22:59:10","slug":"rosen_on_reynol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Rosen on Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Rosen reviews<\/a> InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds’s book, An Army of Davids, in the New Republic. After documenting the “idiocies and dangers” of Reynolds’s brand of web-triumphalism, Rosen places Reynolds and his ilk both inside and outside the long tradition of techno-utopianism:<\/p>\n

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The old futurism celebrated the expert and venerated the scientist who could master and harness technology. Reynolds will have none of this. InstaPundit resides in a world where technology can be harnessed by any semi-literate with a PC. His hero is the guy without any expertise who can see through the palaver of elites. There’s no need to accumulate expertise through years of study or experience, because the Internet has become the great repository of knowledge and experience. You have to admire his argumentative boldness. He has taken figures who have been historic punch lines – the dilettante, the hack – and turned them into civilizational saviors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina Rosen reviews InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds’s book, An Army of Davids, in the New Republic. After documenting the “idiocies and dangers” of Reynolds’s brand of web-triumphalism, Rosen places Reynolds and his ilk both inside and outside the long tradition of techno-utopianism: The old futurism celebrated the expert and venerated the scientist who could master and […]<\/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":false,"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-431","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\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}