{"id":6392,"date":"2010-01-25T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/barack-obama-uses-the-internet-like-a-normal-adult-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:06:00","slug":"barack-obama-uses-the-internet-like-a-normal-adult-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/barack-obama-uses-the-internet-like-a-normal-adult-the-internet.php","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama &quot;Uses the Internet Like a Normal Adult&quot; [The Internet]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c7b2_screencap_2010-01-25_at_11.06.16_am.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">We know he's a <a href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/5126576\/obama-still-steadfast-on-keeping-his-blackberry-theyre-going-to-pry-it-out-of-my-hands\">BlackBerry fanboy<\/a>, an international <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5194233\/president-obama-gives-queen-elizabeth-an-ipod-queen-one+ups-him\">iPod evangelist<\/a>, and a prolific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/whitehouse\">YouTube vlogger<\/a>, and a general <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5298070\/john-hodgman-barack-obama-is-the-first-nerd-president\">nerd<\/a>, but now we have a new label for our POTUS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/24\/AR2010012403014_2.html\">Internet addict<\/a>.<\/p><p>In 2010, to \"use <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #theinternet\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/theinternet\/\">the internet<\/a> like a normal adult\" is to give in to a terrible, emotionless symbiosis from which you can never withdraw, so what's said here&mdash;that the president reads blogs, that he spends a lot of his day online, that he's the first president to have an internet connection at his desk&mdash;is less interesting that what's left unsaid: Does he laugh at memes? Does he comment? Does he <em>troll<\/em>?<\/p><p>And as the <em>WaPo<\/em>'s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/24\/AR2010012403014_2.html\">anonymous source<\/a> so obviously wanted the world to ask, or else he\/she would have worded things differently: Porntube or xHamster? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/24\/AR2010012403014_2.html\">Washington Post<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/edbott\/status\/8193354219\">Ed Bott<\/a>]<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=baea4f2e9fad078ca9cf5f14144513ea&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c7b2_img.phdo?s=baea4f2e9fad078ca9cf5f14144513ea&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c7b2_eus.gif?eui=2226\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=w2NMhNAxv2Q:diczj4lIYI8:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f5b9c_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=w2NMhNAxv2Q:diczj4lIYI8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f5b9c_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=w2NMhNAxv2Q:diczj4lIYI8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f5b9c_full?i=w2NMhNAxv2Q:diczj4lIYI8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=w2NMhNAxv2Q:diczj4lIYI8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f5b9c_full?i=w2NMhNAxv2Q:diczj4lIYI8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0fc0f_w2NMhNAxv2Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know he's a BlackBerry fanboy, an international iPod evangelist, and a prolific YouTube vlogger, and a general nerd, but now we have a new label for our POTUS: Internet addict.In 2010, to \"use the internet like a normal adult\" &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/barack-obama-uses-the-internet-like-a-normal-adult-the-internet.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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392"}],"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=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}