{"id":243370,"date":"2026-08-29T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/does-computer-science-need-computers"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:24:07","slug":"does-computer-science-need-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/does-computer-science-need-computers","title":{"rendered":"Does Computer Science Need Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-computer-science-need-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theoretical side of the field doesn\u2019t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theoretical side of the field doesn\u2019t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}