{"id":13437,"date":"2015-02-08T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:28","slug":"the-acceleration-of-acceleration-how-the-future-is-arriving-far-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/the-acceleration-of-acceleration-how-the-future-is-arriving-far-faster-than-expected","title":{"rendered":"The Acceleration of Acceleration: How The Future Is Arriving Far Faster Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"user_name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenkotler\/\"> Steven Kotler \u2014 Forbes<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>*This article co-written with author Ken Goffman.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that happens when you write books about the future is you get to watch your predictions fail. This is nothing new, of course, but what\u2019s different this time around is the direction of those failures.<\/p>\n<p>Used to be, folks were way too bullish about technology and way too optimistic with their predictions. Flying cars and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/mars\/\">Mars<\/a> missions being two classic\u2014they should be here by now\u2014examples. The <em>Jetsons <\/em>being another.<\/p>\n<p>But today, the exact opposite is happening.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenkotler\/2015\/02\/06\/the-acceleration-of-acceleration-how-the-future-is-arriving-far-faster-than-expected\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Kotler \u2014 Forbes *This article co-written with author Ken Goffman. One of the things that happens when you write books about the future is you get to watch your predictions fail. This is nothing new, of course, but what\u2019s different this time around is the direction of those failures. Used to be, folks were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437","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=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64834,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions\/64834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}