{"id":1958,"date":"2008-06-08T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2008-06-08T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T15:06:24","slug":"the_shape_of_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"The Shape Of Things To Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Futurist Ray Kurzweil has glimpsed into his crystal ball and, if he&#8217;s to be believed, the twenty-first century <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2008\/06\/exponential-tec.html\">might not be as grim as we fear<\/a>. Here are some of the things he foresees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Within 5 years the exponential progress in nanoengineering will make Solar power cost-competitive with fossil fuels.<\/li>\n<li> In 15 years, life expectancies will start rising faster than we age.<\/li>\n<li>In about 20 years 100% of our energy will come from clean and<br \/>\nrenewable sources, and a computer will pass the Turing Test by carrying<br \/>\non a conversation that is indistinguishable from a human\u2019s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I still get my brain implant that lets me control my wheelchair and assume control of the entire Internet, right? Because I&#8217;ve got all kinds of great ideas about what to do once I take over the Internet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurist Ray Kurzweil has glimpsed into his crystal ball and, if he&#8217;s to be believed, the twenty-first century might not be as grim as we fear. Here are some of the things he foresees: Within 5 years the exponential progress in nanoengineering will make Solar power cost-competitive with fossil fuels. In 15 years, life expectancies <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1958' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-vA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}