{"id":985,"date":"2008-09-09T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:29","slug":"an-open-letter-to-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Wired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Wired,<\/p>\n<p>Had <i>Wired<\/i> been around when Alexander Graham Bell asked Watson to join him from the other room via electrical current, would you have called it a flop because the sound quality was poor and he should have read Shakespeare instead?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/business\/2008\/09\/esquires-first.html\">Give <i>Esquire<\/i> a break.<\/a>  An E-Ink cover is brutally cool, regardless of the simplicity of the animation.<\/p>\n<p>My guess? Either you&#8217;re in a snit because you, the technology magazine, didn&#8217;t do it first, or you&#8217;re bitter that you can&#8217;t get dates with the people who write for <i>Esquire<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nElectricRocket<\/p>\n<p>________<br \/>\nETA: Now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-10034824-52.html?tag=mncol;txt\">THIS<\/a> is the future.  A flat sheet of plastic that is a book, or a newspaper, or a magazine, or whatever.  Screw the Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Wired, Had Wired been around when Alexander Graham Bell asked Watson to join him from the other room via electrical current, would you have called it a flop because the sound quality was poor and he should have read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=985\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-e-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}