{"id":20003,"date":"2013-04-26T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20003"},"modified":"2013-04-26T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:24:23","slug":"the-sky-is-falling-the-sky-is-falling-the-pc-is-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/the-sky-is-falling-the-sky-is-falling-the-pc-is-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The PC is dying!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/what-do-people-mean-when-they-say-the-pc-is-dying-7000014531\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Baxter-Reynolds<\/a> challenges the Chicken Littles of the tech reporting world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two problems with the statement &#8220;the PC is dying&#8221;. The first problem is that people like their PCs, and hearing that something that they have affection for is dying, or it isn&#8217;t relevant, or it&#8217;s going away, can be inflammatory.<\/p>\n<p>The second, bigger problem, is that people when hearing this look at the PC that is today and has been a useful tool oftentimes for decades, and rightfully regard the statement as just being non-sensical. It&#8217;s patently untrue.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of waking up one morning and finding a world bereft of PCs is silly. Most people reading this couldn&#8217;t do their jobs, studies, or hobbies without having access to a PC.<\/p>\n<p>What is meant by &#8220;the death of the PC&#8221; is that the relevance of the PC within people&#8217;s lives is being diluted by compute devices that are <em>not<\/em> PCs and the ability to use them for activities that are rewarding yet do not require PCs. This has in fact been going on a long time (e.g. SMS), it&#8217;s just that we&#8217;ve reached a tipping point over the past few years where the whole world seems to be full of smartphones and tablets and everyone is now talking about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Baxter-Reynolds challenges the Chicken Littles of the tech reporting world: There are two problems with the statement &#8220;the PC is dying&#8221;. The first problem is that people like their PCs, and hearing that something that they have affection for is dying, or it isn&#8217;t relevant, or it&#8217;s going away, can be inflammatory. The second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[109,477,213],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20004,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions\/20004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}