{"id":4506,"date":"2014-05-07T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2014-05-07T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:52:12","slug":"honey-they-shrunk-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4506","title":{"rendered":"Honey, they shrunk the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/voyage.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4509\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/voyage.jpg?resize=500%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"voyage\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/voyage.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/voyage.jpg?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"Tocqueville_1532-03_EN_490\">The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/05\/02\/upshot\/FUTURE.html\">interviewed<\/a> some Silicon Valley boffins about their visions of our technological future. Here&#8217;s a representative sample of the replies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marc Andreessen: &#8220;Hundreds or thousands of drones flying to and fro for all kinds of reasons. Getting a top-end college education without going to a physical campus. Cars driven by computers instead of humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clara Shih: &#8220;Implantable chips that monitor the number of steps we take, hours we sleep, all of our vital signs, blood chemistry and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ev Williams: &#8220;Phones and computers will automatically do anything tedious that doesn&#8217;t require brainpower, like signing up for a web site or app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Thrun: &#8220;Implantables, like a chip under your fingernail that unlocks all your devices.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So surprising. So ambitious. In fact, they&#8217;ve inspired me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.implantabledrones.com\">launch\u00a0my own startup.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times interviewed some Silicon Valley boffins about their visions of our technological future. Here&#8217;s a representative sample of the replies: Marc Andreessen: &#8220;Hundreds or thousands of drones flying to and fro for all kinds of reasons. Getting a top-end college education without going to a physical campus. Cars driven by computers instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}