{"id":4847,"date":"2025-07-02T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:43:21","slug":"sounds-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4847","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I learned that there is a Chinese TV series called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30836097\/?ref_=ttpl_ov_bk\"><em>19th Floor<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s about a group of students who are trapped in a VR game. I guess that means that I can&#8217;t sue for copyright infringement. But if a character with a disability and great hair shows up in the second season, I&#8217;m going to be <em>very <\/em>suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve been using my eye-gaze system for a few weeks, I&#8217;m kind of kicking myself for not switching sooner. It&#8217;s so much easier to move a cursor across a screen with a glance rather than my head. While I&#8217;m still hoping that neural implants become widely available in my lifetime, this is probably the next best thing. I&#8217;m even considering getting a bigger monitor now that I won&#8217;t have to worry about conserving my energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also posting more frequently on message boards, which is probably not a great selling point for this technology.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned that there is a Chinese TV series called 19th Floor. It&#8217;s about a group of students who are trapped in a VR game. I guess that means that I can&#8217;t sue for copyright infringement. But if a character with a disability and great hair shows up in the second season, I&#8217;m going <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4847' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-pop-culture","category-tech","category-14-id","category-11-id","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-1gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}