{"id":12634,"date":"2012-05-01T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=12634"},"modified":"2012-05-01T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T03:21:24","slug":"the-internet-continues-to-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/01\/the-internet-continues-to-change-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Continues To Change The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I watched a live, fifteen minute address by President Obama. That alone is nothing extraordinary and it doesn&#8217;t matter whether I agreed with him or not. What I found to be absolutely amazing is that I was watching the President of the United States speaking live on my computer from Bagram, Afghanistan, a country 7,74o miles away. Roosevelt&#8217;s fireside chats seem so Third World now.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet continues to dramatically change they way we all communicate and get our information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-in-Afghanistan.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12634]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12635\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/01\/the-internet-continues-to-change-the-world\/obama-in-afghanistan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-in-Afghanistan.jpg?fit=864%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"864,487\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Obama in Afghanistan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-in-Afghanistan.jpg?fit=570%2C321&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12635\" title=\"Obama in Afghanistan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-in-Afghanistan-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-in-Afghanistan.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-in-Afghanistan.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I watched a live, fifteen minute address by President Obama. That alone is nothing extraordinary and it doesn&#8217;t matter whether I agreed with him or not. What I found to be absolutely amazing is that I was watching the President of the United States speaking live on my computer from Bagram, Afghanistan, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/01\/the-internet-continues-to-change-the-world\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-3hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12640,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}