{"id":6139,"date":"2014-11-03T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T08:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2014-11-03T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T08:38:24","slug":"the-washing-machines-that-give-rise-to-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/03\/the-washing-machines-that-give-rise-to-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The washing machines that give rise to books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve not seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-24835822\"><em>Hans Rosling<\/em><\/a>\u00a0speaking about the magic of the washing machine on this <a href=\"www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6sqnptxlCcw#t=604\">TED talk<\/a>, you really should. \u00a0These machines produce books, you know. \u00a0It's instructive to listen to the audience's nervous laughter, as it realises where the argument is going.<\/p>\n<p>The message in the presentation is that everyone should be freed from the drudgery of washing clothes by hand, liberated by the technology within the washing machine \u2013 and only hard-core\u00a0miserabilists would demur from this \u2013 I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/09\/27\/a-man-with-his-brains-caught-in-the-mangle\/\">one<\/a> such character\u00a0last year; my grandparents would have known him for the fool he is.<\/p>\n<p>Use does not, of course, necessarily imply ownership of a washing machine. \u00a0Even in the developed\u00a0West, ownership is unnecessary, especially, as all you really are interested in is clean clothes. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org\/circular-economy\/circular-economy\">Ellen MacArthur Foundation<\/a> talks about new forms of leasing where what you buy is not the machine, but so many wash cycles.<\/p>\n<p>There seems no sign of this being available on the High Street or in our Shopping Centres any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve not seen Hans Rosling\u00a0speaking about the magic of the washing machine on this TED talk, you really should. \u00a0These machines produce books, you know. \u00a0It's instructive to listen to the audience's nervous laughter, as it realises where the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}