{"id":13760,"date":"2015-03-17T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13760"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:01","slug":"summit-spain-were-going-to-rewire-the-way-your-brain-views-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/summit-spain-were-going-to-rewire-the-way-your-brain-views-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Summit Spain: We\u2019re Going to Rewire the Way Your Brain Views the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 SingulartityHub<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">There\u2019s a story about Napoleon that <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/in-their-own-words\/how-technology-will-change-our-entire-concept-of-value\">goes something like this<\/a>: At a state dinner, he gave his soldiers silver utensils and his court gold. But the guest of honor, the king of Siam, was given utensils of\u2014aluminum.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">Was it a not-so-subtle slight to the king? Not at all. Despite its relative abundance, aluminum was one of the rarest elements on Earth because it was hard to extract.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">Fast forward a few decades, and a new extraction process using electrolysis had made aluminum abundant and cheap. Today, we use it everywhere. We cover takeout food in foil and toss it away without a thought.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/03\/13\/summit-spain-were-going-to-rewire-the-way-your-brain-views-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 SingulartityHub There\u2019s a story about Napoleon that goes something like this: At a state dinner, he gave his soldiers silver utensils and his court gold. But the guest of honor, the king of Siam, was given utensils of\u2014aluminum. Was it a not-so-subtle slight to the king? Not at all. Despite its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760","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=13760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55467,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760\/revisions\/55467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}