{"id":372,"date":"2011-02-01T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:45:01","slug":"tools-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/tools-never-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools Never Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard <a title=\"Tools Never Die\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2011\/02\/01\/133188723\/tools-never-die-waddaya-mean-never\">this story<\/a> on NPR this morning: <a title=\"Kevin Kelly\" href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Kelly<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/cooltools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Tools<\/a>, opines that anything we ever invented is still in use somewhere on the planet.\u00a0 Robert Krulwich worked pretty hard to disprove that notion, and in the end, could not.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sign of my particular nerdiness that I <em>immediately<\/em> thought of an invention we had completely abandoned: the <a title=\"Saturn V\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturn_V\" target=\"_blank\">Saturn V rocket<\/a>. But even then I forgot about hobbyists and museums. The <a title=\"Cosmosphere: Restoraation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmo.org\/restore.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmosphere<\/a> in Kansas will build you an Apollo capsule if the price is right &#8211; as they did for <a title=\"Apollo 13 movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112384\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Apollo 13<\/em><\/a> (indeed, they <a title=\"Restore the Odyessy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmo.org\/re_res_casestudy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">restored<\/a> the original Apollo 13 capsule <em>Odyessy<\/em>). And a number of hobbyists have built or are building working models &#8211; both emulated and in hardware &#8211; of the <a title=\"Build your own AGC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxiki.org\/web\/main\/_blog\/all\/build-your-own-nasa-apollo-landing-computer-no-kidding.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo flight computers<\/a>. Indeed, I have <a title=\"Apollo Guidance Computer emulator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/apollo\/\" target=\"_blank\">this emulator<\/a> right here on my Mac.<\/p>\n<p>So old tools never die. I find that comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard this story on NPR this morning: Kevin Kelly, of Cool Tools, opines that anything we ever invented is still in use somewhere on the planet.\u00a0 Robert Krulwich worked pretty hard to disprove that notion, and in the end, could &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/tools-never-die\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}