{"id":2139,"date":"2014-03-10T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:49:13","slug":"an-occult-history-of-the-television-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set\/","title":{"rendered":"An Occult History of the Television Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set-1521354168'>An Occult History of the Television Set<\/a><div class=\"link_description\"><p>This article on the weird origins of the television set reminded me of the very enjoyable novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carter_Beats_the_Devil\">Carter Beats the Devil<\/a>. In which the the tv and its inventor Philo Farnsworth are a significant plot point and major character.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good reminder of how rationality will only get you so far when inventing new things.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Occult History of the Television SetThis article on the weird origins of the television set reminded me of the very enjoyable novel Carter Beats the Devil. In which the the tv and its inventor Philo Farnsworth are a significant plot point and major character. It\u2019s a good reminder of how rationality will only get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Occult History of the Television Set<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}