{"id":1281,"date":"2010-05-12T08:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T08:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2010-05-19T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:47:31","slug":"it-makes-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/it-makes-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"IT makes you happy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re on a computer or phone you already believe it.\u00a0 A study now gives evidence that technology increases happiness.\u00a0 The main benefit is to facilitate communication.\u00a0 This can be especially beneficial in both rural societies where people live are dispersed and getting in touch with your neighbour\/community etc can mean a long walk\/drive, and urban societies where people don&#8217;t know their neighbours but have friends elsewhere in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Chartered Institute of IT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcs.org\/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.35476\">The Information Dividend: Can IT make you \u2018happier\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/10108551.stm\">Technology linked to happiness, study claims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/edinburgh_and_east\/8632049.stm\">Celebrity tweets &#8216;show happiness&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re on a computer or phone you already believe it.\u00a0 A study now gives evidence that technology increases happiness.\u00a0 The main benefit is to facilitate communication.\u00a0 This can be especially beneficial in both rural societies where people live are dispersed and getting in touch with your neighbour\/community etc can mean a long walk\/drive, and &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/it-makes-you-happy\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IT makes you happy.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-kF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}