{"id":55888,"date":"2013-06-16T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=55888"},"modified":"2013-06-16T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:33:26","slug":"modern-social-problems-and-vintage-technology-googles-project-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/06\/16\/modern-social-problems-and-vintage-technology-googles-project-loon\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Social Problems and Vintage Technology: Google’s Project Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screenshot_2\"<\/a>As our society becomes increasingly technological, I love stories that remind us of the value of simpler ways to solve problems, like a faux bus stop to catch escapee nursing home residents or dogs that are trained to sniff out cancer (both stories here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This weekend we were treated to another such story, this time by Google. The company has announced a plan to bring internet to the whole world… with balloons<\/a>. \u00a0The very first launch of a gas balloon was in 1783<\/a>. \u00a0Two hundred and thirty years later, the company aims to deliver what is arguably the defining feature of our age — the internet — with helium-filled balloons. \u00a0That technology will then bring almost countless other technologies, such as medical advances and agricultural information, to people who are largely excluded from them now. \u00a0A fantastical plan.
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Here’s how it’ll work:<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As our society becomes increasingly technological, I love stories that remind us of the value of simpler ways to solve problems, like a faux bus stop to catch escapee nursing home residents or dogs that are trained to sniff out cancer (both stories here). This weekend we were treated to another such story, this time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2124,64,252,253,290,140],"class_list":["post-55888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-foodagriculture","tag-globalization","tag-healthmedicine","tag-history","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55894,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888\/revisions\/55894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}