{
  "id": 299452,
  "title": "‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/08/farewell-etaoin-shrdlu",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-08T04:45:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Perhaps does not meet the bar for topicality, but it feels very relevant to the current software zeitgeist. \"It's inevitable that we're going to go into computers. All the knowledge I've acquired over these 26 years is all locked up in a little box now called a computer. I think most jobs are probably going to end up the same way.\" @13:51 More direct source from the New York Times:…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}