{"id":104,"date":"2007-11-03T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:51:04","slug":"distraught-participants-riot-at-the-foresight-unconference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/distraught-participants-riot-at-the-foresight-unconference","title":{"rendered":"Distraught Participants Riot at the Foresight Unconference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<i>Rioting at the Foresight Unconference<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>AP, Nov. 3 \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foresight.org\/SrAssoc\/2007\/\">The Foresight Unconference<\/a> announced today that scientists have discovered that there in no world below 1 nanometer. \u201cIt\u2019s just space,\u201d said noted scientist Eric Drexler. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what to do!\u201d Participants left dazed. Many decided to go back to philosophy, one attendee said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike I said, It\u2019s full of stars!\u201d said novelist Arthur C. Clarke, reached in Sri Lanka. \u201cThere\u2019s no there, there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a tragic note, famous author Ray Kurzweil was committed to an insane asylum, ranting \u201cthe Singularity isn\u2019t near! This is horrible!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participants then staged a bonfire outside of Yahoo! headquarters, burning copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=lifeboatfound-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/0670033847\"><i>The Singularity Is Near<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=lifeboatfound-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/0385199732\/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F10%5F1\"><i>Engines of Creation<\/i><\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve been totally mislead!\u201d screamed one woman, ripping her clothes off and jumping in the fire. \u201cIt\u2019s all over!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my fault,\u201d admitted conference organizer Christine Peterson. \u201cBy calling it the \u2018unconference\u2019, I cancelled out the entire science of nanotechnology.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rioting at the Foresight Unconference AP, Nov. 3 \u2014 The Foresight Unconference announced today that scientists have discovered that there in no world below 1 nanometer. \u201cIt\u2019s just space,\u201d said noted scientist Eric Drexler. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what to do!\u201d Participants left dazed. Many decided to go back to philosophy, one attendee said. \u201cLike I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52025,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/52025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}