{"id":28,"date":"2004-05-01T23:32:29","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=28"},"modified":"2004-05-01T23:32:29","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T04:32:29","slug":"mobile-phones-and-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200405\/mobile-phones-and-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phones and Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nPhones are now the dominant technology with which young people, and urban youth in particular, now define themselves. What sort of phone you carry and how you customise it says a great deal about you, just as the choice of car did for a previous generation. In today&#8217;s congested cities, you can no longer make a statement by pulling up outside a bar in a particular kind of car. Instead, you make a similar statement by displaying your mobile phone, with its carefully chosen ringtone, screen logo and slip cover. Mobile phones, like cars, are fashion items: in both cases, people buy new ones far more often than is actually necessary. Both are social technologies that bring people together; for teenagers, both act as symbols of independence. And cars and phones alike promote freedom and mobility, with unexpected social consequences.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2628969\">Economist<\/a> and it is a good read. But then I repeat myself. <\/p>\n<p>Read it before next friday, for then it will move to the premium section.<br \/>\n(<b>Edit:<\/b> By a strange oversight, I had put the quoted part into &#8220;more text&#8221; instead of &#8220;blockquote&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phones are now the dominant technology with which young people, and urban youth in particular, now define themselves. What sort of phone you carry and how you customise it says a great deal about you, just as the choice of car did for a previous generation. In today&#8217;s congested cities, you can no longer make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}