{"id":2415,"date":"2022-08-01T04:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2023-01-04T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:15:35","slug":"the-reverse-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/archives\/2415","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I want to understand whether a technology will succeed, consider the following reversal: assume the tech under consideration is the prevailing methodology. Now, propose the status quo as the new challenger. Would the status quo as new challenger ever work?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example. Suppose we all drove electric cars. What would internal combustion offer?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another. What if your feed was strictly what you curated and never what an algorithm suggested?<\/p>\r\n<p>What if we had insisted every infrastructure project was sculpted? Would we have increased public engagement in energy policy?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, what if the temperature in our buildings never fluctuated, regardless of the season? What would we think of homes and offices and factories built to our prevailing standards?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2531 \" src=\"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/774267360909643932-TzGp-03-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"264\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2532\" src=\"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/774267360909643932-TzGp-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks Ron for introducing me to this idea.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my thumbprint was my username and password for every site on the planet, why would I ever consider a unique username and password for new sites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}