{"id":200301,"date":"2014-07-22T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/22\/tech-writer-clive-thompson-the-world-of\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T06:48:10","slug":"tech-writer-clive-thompson-the-world-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/22\/tech-writer-clive-thompson-the-world-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Writer Clive Thompson: &#8220;The world of fanfiction is the most technologically explosive thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/almostperfectalibi.tumblr.com\/post\/79958249913\/tech-writer-clive-thompson-the-world-of-fanfiction-is\" target=\"_blank\">almostperfectalibi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The leading flank in discovering how to use technology in cool, interesting, thoughtful ways will generally always be the amateurs. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>I have a whole theory, actually, that the world of fan fiction is the most technologically explosive thing I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. <strong>Every single technology that has come along, fan fiction people have come along and colonized it and stress-tested it and found the most amazing things. They were the first people to realize the potential of meta-tagging and bookmarking sites.<\/strong> Like, here\u2019s a link with four tags, and then you go to a fan fiction person, and they have a link, and it has 70 tags. They are pushing this to absolute limit, and they are finding these amazing ways to sort knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all because they\u2019re passionate and nobody is making any money off of it and they don\u2019t want to make any money off of it. They get some amazing stuff done.<strong> If you\u2019re ever wondering about a future technology, just drop what you\u2019re doing and find out what fan fiction people are doing with it.<\/strong> What are fan fiction people doing right now with WhatsApp? I don\u2019t know. But, whatever it is, it\u2019s the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0SXSW Interview: Author Clive Thompson Explains FOMO, the NSA, and His Latest Book, \u201cSmarter Than You Think\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/tech\/2014\/03\/sxsw-interactive-2014-clive-thompson-fomo-fan-fiction-smarter-than-you-think\/page\/2\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>wow!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>almostperfectalibi: The leading flank in discovering how to use technology in cool, interesting, thoughtful ways will generally always be the amateurs. [\u2026] I have a whole theory, actually, that the world of fan fiction is the most technologically explosive thing I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. Every single technology that has come along, fan fiction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/22\/tech-writer-clive-thompson-the-world-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tech Writer Clive Thompson: &#8220;The world of fanfiction is the most technologically explosive thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21410,247,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}