{"id":4697,"date":"2003-11-20T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2003-11-20T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T20:57:20","slug":"un-report-talks-bollocks-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/11\/20\/un-report-talks-bollocks-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"UN report talks bollocks &#8211; shock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3223388.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">BBC tells us of a UN report<\/a> into the impact of technology on the third world (or rather, the lack of technology). Apparently:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">[the report] said that poverty, poor health, illiteracy and slow net links deprived many nations of the advantages enjoyed by more advanced economies.<\/div>\n<p>Now, feel free to accuse me of over-simplifying here, but surely most people  would rather have good health, nutrition and literacy before worrying about the difference between 56k dial-up and 64k ISDN?<\/p>\n<p>There is so much in the news that I want to comment on today: George Dubya&#8217;s visit to London, the protests that go with the visit, the bomb attacks in Istanbul and, dare I say it, Michael Jackson&#8217;s arest in connection with child abuse allegations. Lamentably, I&#8217;m much too tired, having driven 300 miles today, much of it in heavy traffic and through driving rain. I need sleep. Fortunately, I have my own warm and safe home to do that in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC tells us of a UN report into the impact of technology on the third world (or rather, the lack of technology). Apparently: [the report] said that poverty, poor health, illiteracy and slow net links deprived many nations of the advantages enjoyed by more advanced economies. Now, feel free to accuse me of over-simplifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}