{"id":18,"date":"2007-04-01T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/2007\/04\/01\/pattern-on-the-stone\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T20:33:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T04:33:18","slug":"pattern-on-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/2007\/04\/01\/pattern-on-the-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern on the Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I&#8217;d included a quote by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Hillis\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Hillis<\/a> on the massive increases of different uses of computers brought on by the staggering increases in power coupled with similar decreases in size \u2014 specifically, a computer in every doorknob. I was going through some receipts today when I noticed that a book I had bought as a &#8220;lie around&#8221; for my two boys was by by Hillis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/perseus\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=046502596X\" target=\"_blank\">The Pattern on the Stone<\/a> \u2014 a book about how computers function at a conceptual level. A &#8220;lie around&#8221; is a book left around the house that, if it looks interesting, will sooner or later be picked up and read; not necessarily all in one sitting, but in bits and pieces and repetitively. Such &#8220;lie arounds&#8221; are part of my family model of informal education. Another wonderful element of this policy has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larrygonick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Gonick&#8217;s series of Cartoon Guides<\/a> to \u2026. As to <em>The Pattern on the Stone<\/em>, the &#8220;stone&#8221; is silicon and <em>the pattern<\/em> the etching and inlays imposed upon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I&#8217;d included a quote by Danny Hillis on the massive increases of different uses of computers brought on by the staggering increases in power coupled with similar decreases in size \u2014 specifically, a computer in every doorknob. I was going through some receipts today when I noticed that a book I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}