{"id":8015,"date":"2019-11-03T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2019-11-03T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:04:21","slug":"the-toxic-bubble-of-technical-debt-threatening-america-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8015","title":{"rendered":"The Toxic Bubble of Technical Debt Threatening America | The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;A kind of toxic debt is embedded in much of the infrastructure that America built during the 20th century. For decades, corporate executives, as well as city, county, state, and federal officials, not to mention voters, have\u00c2\u00a0decided against doing the routine maintenance and deeper upgrades\u00c2\u00a0to ensure that electrical systems, roads, bridges, dams, and other infrastructure can function properly under a range of conditions. Kicking the can down the road like this is often seen as the profit-maximizing or politically expedient option. But it\u2019s really borrowing against the future, without putting that debt on the books.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/10\/california-fires-and-pge-toxic-debt\/600979\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share&amp;fbclid=IwAR05KIzE9f0eQiu7xOY-VM76392SEuzLnNyxCnItCW5TNzK2PwDaofTHo9w\">The Toxic Bubble of Technical Debt Threatening America | The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;A kind of toxic debt is embedded in much of the infrastructure that America built during the 20th century. For decades, corporate executives, as well as city, county, state, and federal officials, not to mention voters, have\u00c2\u00a0decided against doing the routine maintenance and deeper upgrades\u00c2\u00a0to ensure that electrical systems, roads, bridges, dams, and other infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8016,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}