{"id":13296,"date":"2015-01-24T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:08:54","slug":"cyborg-superpower-man-can-hear-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/cyborg-superpower-man-can-hear-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg Superpower: Man Can Hear the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singulariy Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Television, cellphones, radio, WiFi\u2014modern civilization converses in radio waves.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">Most of us need some kind of device to translate the signals into something we can consume on a screen or through a speaker. But in the television show, <em>Alphas<\/em>, one of the characters, <a href=\"http:\/\/alphas.wikia.com\/wiki\/Gary_Bell\">Gary Bell<\/a>, can literally see and read electromagnetic waves.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">In the show, Bell\u2019s ability is a fictional superpower\u2014but the larger point? The world is brimming with information invisible to our fairly limited senses. A new project, <a href=\"http:\/\/phantomterrains.com\/\">Phantom Terrains<\/a> aims to make us all a little bit more like Gary Bell.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/12\/22\/cyborg-superpower-man-can-hear-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singulariy Hub Television, cellphones, radio, WiFi\u2014modern civilization converses in radio waves. Most of us need some kind of device to translate the signals into something we can consume on a screen or through a speaker. But in the television show, Alphas, one of the characters, Gary Bell, can literally see and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46646,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions\/46646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}