{"id":1110,"date":"2007-11-14T00:21:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2007-11-14T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T00:21:42","slug":"why_are_screens_square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/why_are_screens_square\/","title":{"rendered":"why are screens square?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from the archive, I&#8217;m afraid; but I&#8217;ve quoted this so often in the last year that it merits repeating.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ia340943.us.archive.org\/1\/items\/future_film-2007-02-15-jo\/future_film-2007-02-15-jo.m4v\">A video<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/frot.org\/\">Jo Walsh<\/a>, a simultaneously near-invisible and near-legendary hacker I met through the <a href=\"http:\/\/uo.twenteenthcentury.com\/index.php\/Main_Page\">University of Openess<\/a> in London, talking about FOAF, Web3.0, geospatial data, the &#8216;One Ring To Rule Them All&#8217; tendency of so-called &#8216;social media&#8217; and the philosophies of making tech tools.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why are screens square?&#8221;, she asks. What follows is less a set of theories as a meditation on what happens when you start trying to think back through the layers of toolmaking that go into a piece of paper, a pen, a screen, a keyboard &#8211; the media we use to represent ourselves, and that we agree to pretend are transparent. This then becomes the starting-point for another meditation on who owns, or might own, our digital future.<br \/>\n<em>(High-quality video so takes a little while to load)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from the archive, I&#8217;m afraid; but I&#8217;ve quoted this so often in the last year that it merits repeating. A video of Jo Walsh, a simultaneously near-invisible and near-legendary hacker I met through the University of Openess in London, talking about FOAF, Web3.0, geospatial data, the &#8216;One Ring To Rule Them All&#8217; tendency of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,793,949,1670,1822,1880],"tags":[3163,3261,3289,3435,3466,3480],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burnout","category-hacker","category-jo","category-screens","category-technology","category-toolmaking","tag-burnout","tag-hacker","tag-jo","tag-screens","tag-technology","tag-toolmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}