{"id":8529,"date":"2013-12-02T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2013-12-03T01:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:27:34","slug":"owls-versus-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/owls-versus-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls versus Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Amazon can get the US PR machine worked up over drones, then the British have the answer. Owl Post. Waterstones explains more about their new service they hope to have in the future&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Q. Isn\u2019t this just what they did in Harry Potter?<br \/>\n<\/em>A: Yes, this is exactly what they did in Harry Potter. You\u2019re asking that as if this is a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: Isn\u2019t this how Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s The Birds began?<br \/>\n<\/em>A:\u00a0<i>The Birds<\/i>\u00a0is fiction, this is the real world. Everything will be fine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: But aren\u2019t you worried about the owls developing intelligence and using the knowledge of our home addresses to enact some sort of sky-based revenge? Enslaving us all to deliver their internet orders to their nests?<br \/>\n<\/em>A: No, the laws of robotics means that this can never happen. The owls will be incapable of harming a human.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: But owls aren\u2019t robots, they\u2019re birds.<br \/>\n<\/em>A: That\u2019s the end of the questions, thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smart thinking on leveraging another social media campaign for your own company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Amazon can get the US PR machine worked up over drones, then the British have the answer. Owl Post. Waterstones explains more about their new service they hope to have in the future&#8230; Q. Isn\u2019t this just what they did in Harry Potter? A: Yes, this is exactly what they did in Harry Potter. You\u2019re asking that as if this is a bad thing. Q: Isn\u2019t this how Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s The Birds began? A:\u00a0The Birds\u00a0is fiction, this is the real world. Everything will be fine. Q: But aren\u2019t you worried about the owls developing intelligence and using the knowledge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[4902,4903,2281,4905,4904],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-quote-for-the-day","tag-amazone","tag-drone","tag-harry-potter","tag-owls","tag-waterstones","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}