{"id":4721,"date":"2010-02-07T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T07:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2010\/02\/07\/necessity-is-often-not-the-mother-of-invention-in\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T07:10:19","slug":"necessity-is-often-not-the-mother-of-invention-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2010\/02\/07\/necessity-is-often-not-the-mother-of-invention-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Necessity is often not the mother of invention. In many cases, it surely has been just the opposite. When humans possess a tool, they excel at finding new uses for it. The tool often exists before the problem to be solved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Nye, D. E.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnd.org\/dn.mss\/technology_first_needs_last.html\"> Technology First, Needs Last<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is often not the mother of invention. In many cases, it surely has been just the opposite. When humans possess a tool, they excel at finding new uses for it. The tool often exists before the problem to be solved. Nye, D. E. Technology First, Needs Last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1e9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2859,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/12\/prostheticknowledge-glitch-for-dummies-english\/","url_meta":{"origin":4721,"position":0},"title":"prostheticknowledge: Glitch For Dummies English\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 12, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"prostheticknowledge: Glitch For Dummies English translation of article by Rosa Menkman, one of the key voices in glitch art, offering an introduction to the practice: Technically, a glitch is best understood as an unexpected, unexplainable consequence of an interruption within one or more (digital) information flows. All these flows of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m0oxi5kLLX1qav3uso1_1280.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4599,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/17\/the-computational-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":4721,"position":1},"title":"The Computational Medium","author":"monochromist","date":"January 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"purestform: Computation and mathematics provide an alluring common language between scientific models and aesthetic practice. Computation is a vital tool for scientific simulation and also open-ended material for art. By designing and instantiating complex autonomous systems, we open the door to a new kind of knowledge based on synthesis of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4612,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/09\/as-the-visionary-kevin-kelly-wrote-in-an-essay\/","url_meta":{"origin":4721,"position":2},"title":"As the visionary Kevin Kelly\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"January 9, 2011","format":"quote","excerpt":"As the visionary Kevin Kelly wrote in an essay called \u201cTriumph of the Default,\u201d engineers can influence the behavior of their users: Therefore the privilege of establishing what value the default is set at is an act of power and influence. Defaults are a tool not only for individuals to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5087,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/06\/05\/prostheticknowledge-united-nations-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":4721,"position":3},"title":"prostheticknowledge: United Nations report: Internet\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"June 5, 2011","format":"gallery","excerpt":"prostheticknowledge: United Nations report: Internet access is a human right via Los Angeles Times Internet access is a human right, according to a United Nations report released on Friday. \u201cGiven that the Internet has become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lm9n1smFxq1qav3uso1_400.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2344,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/26\/mas-context-releases-communication\/","url_meta":{"origin":4721,"position":4},"title":"MAS CONTEXT RELEASES COMMUNICATION","author":"monochromist","date":"June 26, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"MAS CONTEXT RELEASES COMMUNICATIONmas-studio: Content is only as good as the way we communicate it. Whether to a colleague, a client or the\u00a0masses, the way we communicate our ideas will more than likely define their ultimate success or failure. Developing and applying the right tool to reach the full potential\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mascontext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MAS_Context_COMMUNICATION.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2499,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/06\/darklyeuphoric-24-hours-of-cycling-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":4721,"position":5},"title":"darklyeuphoric: 24 hours of cycling\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"May 6, 2012","format":"video","excerpt":"darklyeuphoric: 24 hours of cycling in Budapest Kitchen Budapest and UrbanCyclr teamed up to untangle the invisible pattern of bike traffic in Budapest. 100.000 kilometers of biking routes collected from individual bikers are overlaid on the city map. All distortions of the map reflect higher biking activity in the respective\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}