{"id":17490,"date":"2015-06-09T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2015-06-09T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T07:27:55","slug":"two-films-about-masters-of-the-information-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17490","title":{"rendered":"Two films about masters of the information age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of men (women do not seem to figure) have created mega companies that have come to utterly dominate the information age: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there have been films about two of these men: <em>&#8220;The Social Network&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0[my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsS.html#TSN\">here<\/a>] about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook and <em>&#8220;Jobs&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>[my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsJ-L.html#Jobs\">here<\/a>]\u00a0about Steve Jobs and Apple. I saw the first movie on its release \u00a0in 2010 but I have only just caught up with the second which came out in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Both films are worth seeing but &#8220;TSN&#8221; is by far the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of men (women do not seem to figure) have created mega companies that have come to utterly dominate the information age: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter. In recent years, there have been films about two of these men: &#8220;The Social Network&#8221;\u00a0[my review here] about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook and &#8220;Jobs&#8221;\u00a0[my review here]\u00a0about Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17494,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}