{"id":16249,"date":"2017-01-09T19:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16249"},"modified":"2017-01-09T19:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:11:33","slug":"the-future-that-can-and-cant-be-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/01\/09\/the-future-that-can-and-cant-be-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"the future that can and can&#8217;t be predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 1990s, I remember this issue of Boys&#8217; Life that included an article &#8212; I think it was part of a series &#8212; by Issac Asimov which posited future innovations in technology.\u00c2\u00a0 This was a device that we&#8217;re now on the cusp of &#8212; the driver-less car.<\/p>\n<p>The article in question posited that this would free up people for rounds of chess.\u00c2\u00a0 At least that&#8217;s what the picture showed &#8212; the car driving forward, as the passengers play chess.\u00c2\u00a0 Presumably a typical setting for the now wholly freed passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the driver-less car is here, it will be interesting to see if this sparks a Great Chess Revival.<\/p>\n<p>I kind of doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 1990s, I remember this issue of Boys&#8217; Life that included an article &#8212; I think it was part of a series &#8212; by Issac Asimov which posited future innovations in technology.\u00c2\u00a0 This was a device that we&#8217;re now on the cusp of &#8212; the driver-less car. The article in question posited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16250,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}