{"id":27335,"date":"2021-10-06T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27335"},"modified":"2021-10-06T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:12:44","slug":"word-of-the-day-immiserate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27335","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: immiserate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m reading a book called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Exponential-accelerating-technology-transforming-business\/dp\/1847942903\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WKECE3CQ0DDN&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=azeem+azhar&amp;qid=1633547326&amp;sprefix=Azeem+%2Caps%2C167&amp;sr=8-1\">&#8220;Exponential&#8221; by Azeem Azhar<\/a>, someone I used to know when we sat together as members of Ofcom&#8217;s Consumer Panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of his favourite words &#8211; one I&#8217;ve hardly seen before-  is &#8216;immiserate&#8217;, a verb meaning to make miserable or to cause to become impoverished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that many new technologies will cause much immiseration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book called &#8220;Exponential&#8221; by Azeem Azhar, someone I used to know when we sat together as members of Ofcom&#8217;s Consumer Panel. One of his favourite words &#8211; one I&#8217;ve hardly seen before- is &#8216;immiserate&#8217;, a verb meaning to make miserable or to cause to become impoverished. It seems that many new technologies [&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-27335","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\/27335","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=27335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27338,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27335\/revisions\/27338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}