{"id":696,"date":"2009-02-22T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-02-22T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T16:12:56","slug":"nobodys-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/02\/nobodys-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody’s Happy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a link to\u00a0another brilliant post<\/a> from The Technium, this time on the subject of how much we take Technology and the comforts of our life, for granted:<\/p>\n

“Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.”<\/p>\n

It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren’t perfect. This comedian’s routine on the Conan O’Brien show is funny, mocking our ingratitude. I post it here because the rant is a cartoon version of a more serious argument that we become blind to progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(It’s simply a video clip<\/a> from one of O’Brien’s episodes, with comedian Louis C.K. as his guest.\u00a0 This time, you can give the comments a miss and just watch the video)<\/p>\n

Thanks for the reminder, Kevin!<\/p>\n

For good measure, let me also add a link to something absolutely amazing<\/a> that Technology helped create recently:<\/p>\n

TED.com : Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt’s face for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When you have 18 minutes to spare, and a fast Net connection, this\u00a0one’s a must-see<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a link to\u00a0another brilliant post from The Technium, this time on the subject of how much we take Technology and the comforts of our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}