{"id":91,"date":"2003-08-18T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2003\/08\/its-a-flawed-world-after-all\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:44:07","slug":"its-a-flawed-world-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2003\/08\/its-a-flawed-world-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s a Flawed World After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,60063,00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It\u2019s a Flawed World After All<\/a> One pundit responding to the recent worm and major blackout stated \u201cWe\u2019ve created a second nature, and it still feels as mysterious and out of control as the God-given and nature-given creation. That makes us uneasy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just how dependent on technology are we now? What if I couldn\u2019t turn on a light, cook with my gas oven, open the tap and drink running water, use my credit card, be woken by my alarm clock, drive for at least an hour and ten minutes to work, and so on\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>All this technology is great until it fails us.<\/p>\n<p>But the simple rural life I observed in Cornwall (where the tourists weren\u2019t about!) is not for me long term<\/p>\n<p>I am a technoholic thats for sure<\/p>\n<p>Are you?<br><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Flawed World After All One pundit responding to the recent worm and major blackout stated \u201cWe\u2019ve created a second nature, and it still feels as mysterious and out of control as the God-given and nature-given creation. That makes us uneasy.\u201d Just how dependent on technology are we now? 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