{"id":13678,"date":"2015-03-11T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13678"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:28","slug":"the-internet-of-things-will-be-a-giant-persuasion-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-internet-of-things-will-be-a-giant-persuasion-machine","title":{"rendered":"The Internet of Things Will Be a Giant Persuasion Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Pearson \u2014 Motherboard<br \/>\n<br \/> It\u2019s 2020, and you\u2019ve signed up for a weight-loss program. You\u2019re alone on a Saturday night because your significant other is out of town, none of your friends are available to catch a flick at the theatre, and a pizza is sounding pretty good. You Google the address for your favorite joint and walk over instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/everything-that-has-to-happen-before-amazons-drones-can-actually-deliver\" target=\"_blank\">ordering dro\u200bne delivery<\/a> because it\u2019s cheaper, and you\u2019re old fashioned like that. Just before you order at the counter, however, your friend calls you to ask if you want to see a movie after all.<\/p>\n<p>How did this happen? An algorithm analyzing your communications and <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/your-friends-online-connections-can-reveal-your-sexual-orientation\" target=\"_blank\">monitoring your friend netw\u200borks<\/a> learned that your partner was away, and your Facebook posts revealed that you wanted to see a movie but nobody was available. <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/this-algorithm-can-read-the-emotions-behind-your-tweets\" target=\"_blank\">Sentiment analysis of your tweets\u200b<\/a> suggested that you were feeling alone and a little sad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-internet-of-things-will-be-a-giant-persuasion-machine-2\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Pearson \u2014 Motherboard It\u2019s 2020, and you\u2019ve signed up for a weight-loss program. You\u2019re alone on a Saturday night because your significant other is out of town, none of your friends are available to catch a flick at the theatre, and a pizza is sounding pretty good. You Google the address for your favorite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678","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=13678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64809,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions\/64809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}