{"id":253,"date":"2002-12-12T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2002-12-13T03:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2002-12-12T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2002-12-13T03:43:44","slug":"the-one-with-wi-fi-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/12\/12\/the-one-with-wi-fi-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The one with Wi-Fi in it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has a special report on Wi-Fi<\/a>. I just love this stuff:<\/p>\n

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“Wi-Fi is also changing the way that people – at least some young, technologically adept people – go about their work. In Philadelphia, Yvonne Jones, a 33-year-old freelance copywriter, moved her base of operations to a Starbucks about a month ago and said she quickly became “a thousand times” more productive than she was when working at home. “It’s not your house, and you are there for a specific purpose, so the ‘distractions’ aren’t that distracting,” she said.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I read this and realise for the n<\/em>th time just how far behind we are here in the Britain. I’m young (well, youngish) and technologically adept – why can’t I have this stuff? Why can’t I sit in a nice caffee shop and surf?  I seriously doubt whether the number of public wireless hotspots in this country is much above double figures yet. And most of those will be in London<\/a>. Guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has a special report on Wi-Fi. I just love this stuff: “Wi-Fi is also changing the way that people – at least some young, technologically adept people – go about their work. In Philadelphia, Yvonne Jones, a 33-year-old freelance copywriter, moved her base of operations to a Starbucks about a month … Continue reading “The one with Wi-Fi in it”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}