{"id":2347,"date":"2013-04-14T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2013-04-14T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T18:00:35","slug":"the-medium-is-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2013\/04\/14\/the-medium-is-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"The medium is the message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the most amazing TED talk the other day, about Nikola Tesla. Now, we all know that Tesla was a <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\">fascinating, awesome dude<\/a> (especially <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2012\/05\/18\/rock-and-role-top-10-memorable-movie-performances-by-music-stars\/slide\/david-bowie-the-prestige\/\">as played by David Bowie<\/a>\u00a0IMHO), but in the case of this video it was the presentation method that blew me away.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get the video to embed for the life of me, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/marco_tempest_the_electric_rise_and_fall_of_nikola_tesla.html\">here&#8217;s a link<\/a>. It&#8217;s only 6 minutes long and I promise it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that amazing?! I&#8217;ve never seen anything like that in my life. Being an incurable geek, my first thought was how to use this technology for scientific presentations &#8211; imagine being able to flip open a screen the shape of a cell, or a molecule, and run those animations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am officially in geek heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the most amazing TED talk the other day, about Nikola Tesla. Now, we all know that Tesla was a fascinating, awesome dude (especially as played by David Bowie\u00a0IMHO), but in the case of this video it was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2013\/04\/14\/the-medium-is-the-message\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,3,54,95,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-embarrassing-fan-girl","category-science","category-technology","category-the-wonders-of-technology","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}