{"id":137,"date":"2011-09-20T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeyhand.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-12-29T15:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T20:21:46","slug":"evidence-of-lack-of-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/evidence-of-lack-of-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of lack of boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”, published an article in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> titled “The Benefits of Soul-Crushing Boredom” (http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/nV24tg<\/a>, 8\/6\/2011) in which he made the point that the ubiquity of electronic devices for entertainment has lowered the opportunity for boredom, but that ample boredom is necessary for creativity.<\/p>\n

Just over a month later, the WSJ<\/em> had another article about the new rocket<\/a> proposed by NASA to replace the Space Shuttle. Accompanying the article was a graphic of manned rockets which neatly showed the decline of creativity.<\/p>\n

\"Saturn
NASA manned rockets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1967 – Saturn V – A great name. Granted, its name is a double-sequel: the Saturn rocket family followed the Jupiter rockets, and it was the 5th design in the family.<\/p>\n

1981 – Space Shuttle – Functional and descriptive. Just descriptive.<\/p>\n

201x- Space Launch System – Still just descriptive, but now wordy and the use of “System” is about as gerenic and overused in tech-speak as “postmodern” in English lit. Also, whereas going from Jupiter-class to Saturn-class rockets stayed on a planet theme, going from Space Shuttle to Space Launch System keeps the surprising theme of “Space”, without any update or modification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”, published an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Benefits of Soul-Crushing Boredom” (http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/nV24tg, 8\/6\/2011) in which he made the point that the ubiquity of electronic devices for entertainment has lowered the opportunity for boredom, but that ample boredom is necessary for creativity. Just over a month later, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}