{"id":17962,"date":"2015-08-12T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T11:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17962"},"modified":"2015-08-12T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T11:04:56","slug":"google-alphabet-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17962","title":{"rendered":"Google -> Alphabet -> The Circle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/aug\/10\/google-alphabet-parent-company\">news<\/a> that Google is to restructure its operations fundamentally, with a new holding company called Alphabet, underlines just how diverse and ambitious are the company&#8217;s aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Where is all this taking us? One profoundly unsettling scenario is offered in a novel called &#8220;The Circle&#8221; by Dave Eggers. It is not a prediction but it is a warning. \u00a0You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Circle\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that Google is to restructure its operations fundamentally, with a new holding company called Alphabet, underlines just how diverse and ambitious are the company&#8217;s aspirations. Where is all this taking us? One profoundly unsettling scenario is offered in a novel called &#8220;The Circle&#8221; by Dave Eggers. It is not a prediction but it [&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-17962","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\/17962","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=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17964,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions\/17964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}