{"id":777,"date":"2003-12-03T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2003-12-03T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T00:31:10","slug":"economist-with-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Economist with the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"How much do computers matter? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/Index.html\">Brad de Long<\/a> thinks he has a measure for it:<blockquote> The computer-and-communications technology revolution we have been living through transforms twice as large a share of the economy as did the British Industrial Revolution, looks to last three times as long, and proceeds at a pace three times faster than the revolution in spinning and weaving: it is, relative to the size of the economy, eighteen times a bigger deal than the original.<\/blockquote>\nBut, when I look around the world, the real revolution and divide seems to be the fall in infant mortality in modern societies. Is there a name for that? It&#8217;s certainly distinct from the industrial revolution. It has more to do with food. and sewerage.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much do computers matter? Brad de Long thinks he has a measure for it: The computer-and-communications technology revolution we have been living through transforms twice as large a share of the economy as did the British Industrial Revolution, looks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}