{"589312":{"#nid":"589312","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why Is It That So Many Basic Things Don\u0027t Work As Well As They Used To?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in \u0026ldquo;Why Is It That So Many Basic Things Don\u0026#39;t Work As Well As They Used To?\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMother Nature Network.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost at the Atlantic shares my frustrations, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/02\/the-singularity-in-the-toilet-stall\/517551\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewrites\u003C\/a\u003E: \u0026quot;So many ordinary objects and experiences have become technologized ... that they have also ceased to work in their usual manner. It\u0026rsquo;s common to think of such defects as matters of bad design. That\u0026rsquo;s true, in part. But technology is also more precarious than it once was. Unstable, and unpredictable.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/green-tech\/research-innovations\/blogs\/why-does-technology-make-basic-tasks-worse\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-03-27 15:11:29","changed_gmt":"2017-03-27 15:11:29","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Jocelyn Guerrero","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/green-tech\/research-innovations\/blogs\/why-does-technology-make-basic-tasks-worse","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=1Az_4YGj"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}