{"id":27005,"date":"2014-07-25T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27005"},"modified":"2014-07-24T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:38:15","slug":"qotd-the-singularity-already-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/qotd-the-singularity-already-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The singularity already happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The gulf that separates us from the near past is now so great that we cannot really imagine how one could design a spacecraft, or learn engineering in the first place, or even just look something up, without a computer and a network. Journalists my age will understand how profound and disturbing this break in history is: Do you remember doing your job before Google? It was, obviously, possible, since we actually did it, but how? It is like having a past life as a conquistador or a phrenologist.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/science\/who-will-be-the-moonwalkers-of-tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Who will be the moonwalkers of tomorrow?&#8221;, <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gulf that separates us from the near past is now so great that we cannot really imagine how one could design a spacecraft, or learn engineering in the first place, or even just look something up, without a computer and a network. Journalists my age will understand how profound and disturbing this break in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[28,41,15],"tags":[109,58,403],"class_list":["post-27005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-internet","tag-thesingularity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-71z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27006,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27005\/revisions\/27006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}