{"id":381,"date":"2009-11-19T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=381"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:24:03","slug":"in-flight-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/in-flight-cyberspace\/","title":{"rendered":"in-flight cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i have to record here that i&#8217;m having my first-ever inf-flight online experience; as i waited to board this flight from new york to san francisco, it was announced that there was a free trial promotion of a new in-flight internet service, provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gogoair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Gogo<\/a>; a team of young women in bright green t-shirts circulated through the waiting passengers offering us the free trial, &amp; many people took it up. they had a laptop so that we could register while we waited, altho this took some time as it was one of those tiny laptops &amp; the web site had clearly been designed for a big screen. so after a lot of scrolling back &amp; forth, about 3 of us got registered before we boarded.<br> <br> now i&#8217;m happily surfing in the sky; everything i want to do works &amp; it&#8217;s a reasonable speed. apparently it does not work for VoIP &amp; a few other things. it works on other devices such as phones &amp; PDAs, &amp; will cost slightly more for laptops &#8211; when i asked why, the girl said it was because laptops have bigger screens &#8230; ??? well i don&#8217;t know but at least it&#8217;s coming at last.<br> <br> the main downside of in-flight internet is the cramped non-ergonomic position. the guy seated in front of me must have some kind of fidgetting disorder, &amp; perhaps a slightly broken seat &#8211; he reclined fully immediately after take off &amp; has proceeded to shift &amp; squirm &amp; adjust his seat-back constantly for the whole flight; really annoying! but &#8230; bumpy internet is better than no internet : )  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have to record here that i&#8217;m having my first-ever inf-flight online experience; as i waited to board this flight from new york to san<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/in-flight-cyberspace\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}