{"id":2221,"date":"2014-01-10T23:16:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T23:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/10\/in-the-era-of-the-iphone-facebook-and-twitter\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:55","slug":"in-the-era-of-the-iphone-facebook-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/10\/in-the-era-of-the-iphone-facebook-and-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>In the era of the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter, we\u2019ve become enamored of ideas that spread as effortlessly as ether. We want frictionless, \u201cturnkey\u201d solutions to the major difficulties of the world\u2014hunger, disease, poverty. We prefer instructional videos to teachers, drones to troops, incentives to institutions. People and institutions can feel messy and anachronistic. They introduce, as the engineers put it, uncontrolled variability.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/07\/29\/130729fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/07\/29\/130729fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the era of the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter, we\u2019ve become enamored of ideas that spread as effortlessly as ether. We want frictionless, \u201cturnkey\u201d solutions to the major difficulties of the world\u2014hunger, disease, poverty. We prefer instructional videos to teachers, drones to troops, incentives to institutions. People and institutions can feel messy and anachronistic. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/10\/in-the-era-of-the-iphone-facebook-and-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}