{"id":4229,"date":"2012-05-16T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T05:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2012-05-16T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T05:12:32","slug":"the-call-of-the-future-by-tom-vanderbilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"The Call of the Future by Tom Vanderbilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 1986, the latest shift was \u201ccall waiting,\u201d which Judith Martin compared to \u201cstanding at a cocktail party and not paying attention to the person you\u2019re with, waiting for a more important person.\u201d Now, of course, as we stand at that same cocktail party, fidgeting with our smartphones\u2014which, despite rarely looking like something designed for speaking into, we not only talk on, but to (summoning the iPhone\u2019s electronic concierge, Siri, for directions or the weather)\u2014the interruptions that once occurred on the telephone line now occur in real time and space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilsonquarterly.com\/article.cfm?AID=2140\">The Wilson Quarterly: The Call of the Future by Tom Vanderbilt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, the latest shift was \u201ccall waiting,\u201d which Judith Martin compared to \u201cstanding at a cocktail party and not paying attention to the person you\u2019re with, waiting for a more important person.\u201d Now, of course, as we stand at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[436,628],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-smartphones","tag-telephony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}