For one obvious example, I’m typing this on a plane– Southwest has started doing wi-fi on some flights, and it is totally worth $5 to be able to web-surf in flight.It would be even better if the flight wren’t packed, so I could type more comfortably, but I’m ok with just reading (once I post this).<\/p>\n
Another example is the way that net access enabled me to have a far better time in Miami last night than I ordinarily would have. Everybody from the meeting I went there for took off, so I was on my own for the evening, and South Beach isn’t my kind of scene, being neither rich nor famous nor fond of expensive mixed drinks. A little poking around online found me Zeke’s Roadhouse<\/a>, though, which is exactly<\/em> my kind of place: 200-plus different beers in bottles and draft, and all of them $4. I never would’ve noticed it wandering on my own, but once I knew it existed, I was all over that.<\/p>\n (Yelp also talked up a brewpub, but it was a much longer walk than I wanted to take. If I’m ever back in town…)<\/p>\n The Internet also provided tools to keep me calm during the ridiculous wait for security check-in at the Fort Lauderdale airport, which would’ve driven me nuts if I didn’t have Twitter on my new phone. And so on.<\/p>\n For all the talk about the Singularity coming through AI and that sort of thing, I think the biggest changes probably have less to do with local intelligence than these kinds of connectivity and recommendation functions. I don’t need to be that much smarter as often as I need to find a good place to grab a beer, or a way to kill some time in a quasi-productive manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For one obvious example, I’m typing this on a plane– Southwest has started doing wi-fi on some flights, and it is totally worth $5 to be able to web-surf in flight.It would be even better if the flight wren’t packed, so I could type more comfortably, but I’m ok with just reading (once I post… Continue reading The Internet Makes Everything Better<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,56,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","category-travel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}