{"id":12592,"date":"2015-09-24T07:02:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12592"},"modified":"2015-09-24T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:02:56","slug":"retrotopia-public-utilities-private-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12592","title":{"rendered":"Retrotopia: Public Utilities, Private Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2015\/09\/retrotopia-public-utilities-private.html\" target=\"_blank\">Retrotopia: Public Utilities, Private Goods<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This is the fourth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, having arrived in the capital of the Lakeland Republic, discovers that things are even stranger there than he thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d already guessed that the hotel lobby probably wouldn\u2019t look much like the ones I was used to seeing elsewhere, and so I wasn\u2019t surprised. Instead of the glaring lights, security cameras, and automated check-in kiosks I was used to, it was a comfortable space with sofas and chairs around the edges, ornate chandeliers overhead, and a couple of desks staffed by actual human beings over to one side; off to the other side, glass doors framed in wood led into what looked like a full-service restaurant. A bellhop\u2014was that the right word?\u2014came trotting over to take my suitcase as soon as I came through the door, said something pleasant, and followed me over to the check-in desk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a reservation,\u201d I said to the clerk. \u201cThe name\u2019s Peter Carr.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d been wondering whether the hotel would turn out to use an old-fashioned computer system with a keyboard and screen, but apparently even that was too complex for local standards. Instead, the clerk pulled out a three-ring binder, opened it, and found my reservation in about as much time as it would have taken to input a name on a veepad and wait for a response to come out of the cloud. \u201cWelcome to the Capitol Hotel, Mr. Carr. We have you down for fourteen nights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrotopia: Public Utilities, Private Goods This is the fourth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, having arrived in the capital of the Lakeland Republic, discovers that things are even stranger there than he thought&#8230; *********** I\u2019d already guessed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3463,1758,9243,9242,8722],"class_list":["post-12592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-private-goods","tag-public-utilities","tag-retrotopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12593,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}