{"id":3837,"date":"2018-03-23T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:26:55","slug":"designed-obsolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/ux\/designed-obsolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Designed Obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All Systems Failed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!-- \nPossibly first drafted 2018-03-23. But WordPress no longer shows the created date. Only the revision date. \n-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I think software is going through a phase that TV programming did. Where customer loyalty is forgotten. No one wants to try anything new because they&#8217;ve been burned too many times. So now shows are delivered in their entirety\u2026so that we can understand the committment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">How touching is it that my last Kindle note was a quote from Oliver Sack&#8217;s &#8220;On the Move&#8221; where he describes losing a suitcase that contained three years of photographs and notes he had made in preparation for writing a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>mid 18th century: from Latin obsolescent- \u2018falling into disuse\u2019, from the verb obsolescere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But we aren&#8217;t falling. We&#8217;re being pushed over a cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planned_obsolescence\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planned_obsolescence<\/a> says it&#8217;s risky if consumers notice and revolt. Lots of interesting writers in this to research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushed over a cliff. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/ux\/designed-obsolescence\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}