{"id":113,"date":"2007-12-18T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=113"},"modified":"2007-12-18T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:55:07","slug":"pandoras-box-foreword-and-cover-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Pandora&#8217;s Box Foreword and Cover Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer I suggested to my editor that it would be really nice to be able to have <a href=\"http:\/\/palmersguide.com\/jamesburke\/\">James Burke<\/a> write a foreword for <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3ygxqu\">Pandora&#8217;s Box<\/a>. Having provided suitable words for an approach I left it with the editors to contact his agent and see if he was willing to do so. I received my author copies of the book today and was really pleased to find that James Burke had written the foreword, and there is a quote from him on the back cover:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I.T. has triggered complex social, political, economic and ethical issues that need urgent action if we are to survive the coming decades of unprecedented technological change. This book is a must-read for all those who want to understand the issues or, more important, want to help in their resolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the foreword he calls the book &#8220;lucid and comprehensive&#8221;.<br \/>\nJames Burke&#8217;s socio-technical TV programmes and books (particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connections_(TV_series)\">Connections<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed\">The Day the Universe Changed<\/a>) were a major influence on my interest in this area, so it&#8217;s particularly gratifying to me to have his imprimature on our book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer I suggested to my editor that it would be really nice to be able to have James Burke write a foreword for Pandora&#8217;s Box. Having provided suitable words for an approach I left it with the editors to contact his agent and see if he was willing to do so. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}