{"id":2893,"date":"2008-06-19T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-19T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T10:02:28","slug":"machine-fecundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/machine-fecundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Fecundity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA while back <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Dyson_(science_historian)\">George Dyson<\/a> sent along this note about the fecundity of manufactured items:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI had to park my car at [Seattle&#8217;s] SeaTac on Saturday-Sunday and this sparked a small epiphany. It now costs more to park a car at one airport than to rent one at the other end. To my twisted mind, this indicates that machines (taking the automobile as a benchmark) are now self-reproducing so fast we have reached a transition point where machines are cheaper than the empty space they fill.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/2007_08_31_parking_lot.jpg\" height=\"267\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2007 08 31 Parking Lot\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNot only nature, but the Technium too abhors a vacuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back George Dyson sent along this note about the fecundity of manufactured items: I had to park my car at [Seattle&#8217;s] SeaTac on Saturday-Sunday and this sparked a small epiphany. It now costs more to park a car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/machine-fecundi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}