{"id":15130,"date":"2015-07-01T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:02:09","slug":"why-send-humans-to-space-when-we-can-send-robots-daniel-oberhaus-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/why-send-humans-to-space-when-we-can-send-robots-daniel-oberhaus-motherboard","title":{"rendered":"Why Send Humans to Space When We Can Send Robots? \u2014 Daniel Oberhaus | Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first marketable, personal computers in the late 70s came about after almost 40 years of research and development, which created the technology at public expense. One of the peculiarities, if you\u2019d like, of our system of innovation and development is that it\u2019s radically anti-capitalist in many ways\u2026People who paid taxes in the 50s and 60s may not have known it, but they were creating what was ultimately marketed by Apple. But they don\u2019t get any of the profit. I think that\u2019s a social pathology and the same carries over into space.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/chomsky-krauss-space-science-qa\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first marketable, personal computers in the late 70s came about after almost 40 years of research and development, which created the technology at public expense. One of the peculiarities, if you\u2019d like, of our system of innovation and development is that it\u2019s radically anti-capitalist in many ways\u2026People who paid taxes in the 50s 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":[6,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","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=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46380,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions\/46380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}