{"id":4887,"date":"2010-01-11T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/embracing-reality\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:45:29","slug":"embracing-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/embracing-reality.php","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/df4cc_twitter.nasa.7.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/df4cc_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b> Keith's note: <\/b> Twitter has some <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/09\/14\/twitter-2009-stats\/\">18 million active users<\/a>. We've already seen how Twitter has started to alter how news and ideas are spread - instantaneously - with major TV networks scrambling to pay attention. To its credit, NASA was an early adopter and now makes remarkable use of Twitter - and is learning fast how to use other social networking tools.  Twitter is paying attention - hence this banner - one that appears with regularity on Twitter. <\/p><p>Alas, while NASA has pushed the envelope with regard to social media,  its Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs at NASA Headquarters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/about\/highlights\/goodman_bio.html\">Morrie Goodman<\/a>, has (privately) expressed deep skepticism with regard to the value of these tools. Is Morrie offering a reality check, or reaffirming the status quo of ideas and paradigms that are no longer relevant?<\/p><p><strong>What is it that Twitter sees in NASA - that NASA does not see in Twitter?<\/strong><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/df4cc_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b> Keith's update: <\/b> Morrie Goodman does not agree with what I have posted. If\/when he sends me a formal response, I will be happy to post it - verbatim.<\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/df4cc_iac5n9okUhA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith's note: Twitter has some 18 million active users. We've already seen how Twitter has started to alter how news and ideas are spread - instantaneously - with major TV networks scrambling to pay attention. To its credit, NASA was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/embracing-reality.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}