{"id":2298,"date":"2012-07-15T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2012-07-15T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T12:24:29","slug":"the-real-problem-with-a-silicon-republic-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"The real problem with a &#8216;Silicon Republic&#8217; for Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Cork, and probably Ireland in general, ever wants to get a leg up on Silicon Valley, or ANY tech center, they will have to get the local booksellers to start carrying books on the subject. YES! I do know the subject is a moving target, and that good books are hard to find, but keeping NOTHING on the shelves doesn&#8217;t help at all!.<\/p>\n<p>At Eason&#8217;s Books it looks like this, while having 5 full cases of food books, and two full ones on &#8216;spirituality&#8217; :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21709201@N00\/7574052690\/\" title=\"Computer books in Eason's by Branedy, on Flickr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8019\/7574052690_7b1c599c77.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Computer books in Eason's\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waterstones Looks like this, not any better:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21709201@N00\/7574061872\/\" title=\"Computer books at Waterstones by Branedy, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8007\/7574061872_0b3623bdf4.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Computer books at Waterstones\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would almost be better not to have ANY computer selection than to have these pathetic examples for selection.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Cork, and probably Ireland in general, ever wants to get a leg up on Silicon Valley, or ANY tech center, they will have to get the local booksellers to start carrying books on the subject. YES! I do know<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2298\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The real problem with a &#8216;Silicon Republic&#8217; for Ireland<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,46,2,48,41,29],"tags":[417,441,556],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education","category-general-it-issues","category-information","category-press","category-the-future","tag-books","tag-computing","tag-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}