{"id":1937,"date":"2012-10-08T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:57","slug":"who-made-that-escape-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2012\/10\/08\/who-made-that-escape-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Made That Escape Key?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/07\/magazine\/who-made-that-escape-key.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20121006&amp;_r=0\">New York Times has a nice article<\/a> about the Escape key:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s the \u2018Hey, you! Listen to me\u2019 key,\u201d says Jack Dennerlein of the Harvard School of Public Health. According to Dennerlein, an expert on how humans interact with computers, the escape key helped drive the computer revolution of the 1970s and \u201980s. \u201cIt says to the computer: \u2018Stop what you\u2019re doing. I need to take control.\u2019 \u201d In other words, it reminds the machine that it has a human master. If the astronauts in \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey\u201d had an ESC key, Dennerlein points out, they could have stopped the rogue computer Hal in an instant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a nice article about the Escape key: \u201cIt\u2019s the \u2018Hey, you! Listen to me\u2019 key,\u201d says Jack Dennerlein of the Harvard School of Public Health. According to Dennerlein, an expert on how humans interact with computers, the escape key helped drive the computer revolution of the 1970s and \u201980s. \u201cIt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,2],"tags":[431,434,432,437,436,430,435,129,433],"class_list":{"0":"post-1937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-history","7":"category-computer-news","8":"tag-2001-a-space-odyssey","9":"tag-astronauts","10":"tag-computer-hal","11":"tag-esc","12":"tag-escape-key","13":"tag-harvard-school-of-public-health","14":"tag-jack-dennerlein","15":"tag-new-york-times","16":"tag-school-of-public-health","17":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}