{"id":78,"date":"2013-02-28T07:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-02-28T07:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:40:23","slug":"sergey-brin-thinks-touchscreens-are-emasculating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/sergey-brin-thinks-touchscreens-are-emasculating\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergey Brin Thinks Touchscreens Are Emasculating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asset1.cbsistatic.com\/cnwk.1d\/i\/tim\/2013\/02\/27\/Screen_Shot_2013-02-27_at_9.41.20_AM_610x347.png\" width=\"610\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sergey Brin seems to be popping up everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>He made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/2\/27\/4036366\/sergey-brin-at-ted-the-cell-phone-is-a-nervous-habit\">surprise appearance<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2013\/\">the TED Conference<\/a> yesterday, talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/glass.google.com\">Google Glass<\/a> and mobile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brin began the talk by looking down at his phone, and commenting that, like many, this is how he spends most of his time. &#8220;We often question if this is the way you want to connect with the people in your life,&#8221; Brin said. &#8220;<strong>I feel it&#8217;s kind of emasculating.<\/strong> You&#8217;re just rubbing this featureless piece of glass.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2013\/02\/27\/brin-glass\">some may complain<\/a> that we&#8217;re taking cool advice from a guy who wears Crocs, I don&#8217;t think Sergey&#8217;s wrong. Just count how many times you&#8217;re out with friends and have a split second of down-time. Chances are you instinctively reach for your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Brin seems to be popping up everywhere. He made a surprise appearance at the TED Conference yesterday, talking about Google Glass and mobile: Brin began the talk by looking down at his phone, and commenting that, like many, this is how he spends most of his time. &#8220;We often question if this is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkle.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}