{"id":19956,"date":"2015-12-12T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T04:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/technology-will-save-our-future-according-to-japanese-sf-author-taiyo-fujii"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:16:41","slug":"technology-will-save-our-future-according-to-japanese-sf-author-taiyo-fujii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/technology-will-save-our-future-according-to-japanese-sf-author-taiyo-fujii","title":{"rendered":"Technology Will Save Our Future, According To Japanese SF Author Taiyo Fujii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technology-will-save-our-future-according-to-japanese-sf-author-taiyo-fujii.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been increasingly interested in translated science fiction novels, and one of the best ones that I picked up this year was Taiyo Fujii\u2019s debut <em>Gene Mapper<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Mapper takes place in a future where augmented reality and genetic engineering is commonplace. When a freelance gene mapper named Hayashida finds that a project that he had worked on is collapsing, he believes that it\u2019s being sabotaged. Determined to fix it, he travels to Vietnam where he finds that there\u2019s more behind the problem than he initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a tie-in story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/violation-of-the-truenet-security-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">over on Lightspeed Magazine<\/a>, \u2018Violation of the TrueNet Security Act\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/technology-will-save-our-future-according-to-japanese-1747697293?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been increasingly interested in translated science fiction novels, and one of the best ones that I picked up this year was Taiyo Fujii\u2019s debut Gene Mapper. Gene Mapper takes place in a future where augmented reality and genetic engineering is commonplace. When a freelance gene mapper named Hayashida finds that a project that he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,38,412,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63495,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions\/63495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}