{"id":505,"date":"2014-04-17T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2014-04-13T22:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T05:09:49","slug":"gofor-personal-drones-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/gofor-personal-drones-on-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gofor&#8221;: Personal drones on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofordrones.com\/\">This \u201cUber for drones\u201d parody<\/a> (it <em>is<\/em> fake\u2026 right?) is utterly pitch perfect. You know it\u2019s coming, and I can\u2019t wait for all the breathless 23-year-old moron tech \u201cjournalists\u201d to breathlessly cheerlead the startup-weasel brawl that&#8217;ll bring it to you. #CentrifugalBumblepuppy<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KhIh2zqycW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cStrange,\u201d mused the Director, as they turned away, \u201cstrange to think that even in Our Ford\u2019s day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It\u2019s madness. Nowadays the Controllers won\u2019t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games.\u201d\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxley.net\/bnw\/three.html\">Brave New World<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KhIh2zqycW4\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/14\/04\/drones-on-demand\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cUber for drones\u201d parody (it is fake\u2026 right?) is utterly pitch perfect. You know it\u2019s coming, and I can\u2019t wait for all the breathless 23-year-old moron tech \u201cjournalists\u201d to breathlessly cheerlead the startup-weasel brawl that&#8217;ll bring it to you. #CentrifugalBumblepuppy \u201cStrange,\u201d mused the Director, as they turned away, \u201cstrange to think that even in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}