{"id":201,"date":"2009-07-17T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2010-05-08T11:41:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:41:53","slug":"verschrankung-the-internet-is-a-schrodinger-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/07\/17\/verschrankung-the-internet-is-a-schrodinger-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Verschr\u00e4nkung: The Internet is a Schr\u00f6dinger Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The Internet is a Schr\u00f6dinger device.<\/p>\n<p>On the interweb, after a while, things are simultaneously there and gone. They <em>might <\/em>be there, or they <em>might <\/em>not, depending on some earlier random event.<\/p>\n<p>On Kindle, when we look in the box, we see the book either there or gone, not a mixture of there and gone (just like the cat).<\/p>\n<p>For webpages, they too are either there or gone &#8211; sometimes they even stay there long after they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<p>There really is no way to predict which it will be until we look.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-201'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(201);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(201);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(201);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Internet is a Schr\u00f6dinger device. On the interweb, after a while, things are simultaneously there and gone. They might be there, or they might not, depending on some earlier random event. On Kindle, when we look in the box, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/07\/17\/verschrankung-the-internet-is-a-schrodinger-device\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[4,392,20],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-general","tag-silliness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-3f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3819,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/03\/10\/learning-theories-gone-wild-urban-myths-that-hurt-your-learning-designs\/","url_meta":{"origin":201,"position":0},"title":"Learning Theories Gone Wild &#8211; Urban Myths that Hurt Your Learning Designs","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an excellent summary of a few of the more popular myths. 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