{"id":151,"date":"2007-04-18T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:25:36","slug":"quiet-essay-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/quiet-essay-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"quiet essay, pt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>digital devices in our bedroom:<\/strong><br>Stereo system, CD player broken<br>Discman<br>Three-piece speaker system<br>Playstation 3<br>Nintendo Wii<br>Television with DVD and VHS players<br>Fax machine, broken<br>Cell phone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>foyer:<\/strong><br>Printer<br>Scanner<br>Laptop<br>Flat-screen monitor<br>DSL Internet router<br>Wireless router<br>External hard drive<br>DVD burner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>living room:<\/strong><br>Two-piece speaker system<br>Laptop<br>Sound mixing board<br>Micro Modulator<br>USB MIDI hub<br>Digital effects processor<br>Laptop<br>WACOM tablet and pen<br>Cell phone<br>Cell phone<br>Projector<br>Microcontroller<br>iPod<br>Playstation Portable<br>Nintendo DS<br>GPS Bluetooth transmitter<br>MP3 player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The apartment is filled with digital technology, whispering an incessant low-level hum. Thirty-three electronic devices, enormously successful at creating noise. Not the noise of audio or video streams, but the noise of distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can they create a space of quiet within oneself? A place of calm, of quiet, but not emptiness. Even what is \u201cempty\u201d space is filled with air. Air you can breathe. A place of quiet where you are attentive. Where you are mindful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>digital devices in our bedroom:Stereo system, CD player brokenDiscmanThree-piece speaker systemPlaystation 3Nintendo WiiTelevision with DVD and VHS playersFax machine, brokenCell phone foyer:PrinterScannerLaptopFlat-screen monitorDSL Internet routerWireless routerExternal hard driveDVD burner living room:Two-piece speaker systemLaptopSound mixing boardMicro ModulatorUSB MIDI hubDigital effects processorLaptopWACOM tablet and penCell phoneCell phoneProjectorMicrocontrolleriPodPlaystation PortableNintendo DSGPS Bluetooth transmitterMP3 player The apartment is filled with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/quiet-essay-pt-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">quiet essay, pt 3<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}