{"id":21314,"date":"2016-01-29T00:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/imagining-footballs-future-through-the-super-bowl-of-2066"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:57","slug":"imagining-footballs-future-through-the-super-bowl-of-2066","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/imagining-footballs-future-through-the-super-bowl-of-2066","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Football\u2019s Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imagining-footballs-future-through-the-super-bowl-of-2066.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scalpers offered contact lenses guaranteed to fool any ocular-based biometric ticketing technology.<\/p>\n<p>He was right, of course, which explains all those people arriving at the stadium in all the usual ways. Some came by autonomous cars that dropped them off a mile or more from the stadium, their fitness wearables synced to their car software, both programmed to make their owner walk whenever the day\u2019s calories consumed exceeded the day\u2019s calories burned. Others turned up on the transcontinental Hyperloop, gliding at 760 miles per hour on a cushion of air through a low-pressure pipeline, as if each passenger was an enormous bank slip tucked into a pneumatic tube at a drive-through teller window in 1967. That was the year the first Super Bowl was played, midway through the first season of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, set in a space-age future that now looks insufficiently imagined.<\/p>\n<p>And so hours before Super Bowl 100 kicked off\u2014we persist in using that phrase, long after the NFL abandoned the actual practice\u2014the pregame scene offered all the Rockwellian tableaux of the timeless tailgate: children running pass patterns on their hoverboards\u2014they still don\u2019t quite hover, dammit\u2014dads printing out the family\u2019s pregame snacks, grandfathers relaxing in lawn chairs with their marijuana pipes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/01\/the-future-of-the-super-bowl\/?mbid=nl_12716\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scalpers offered contact lenses guaranteed to fool any ocular-based biometric ticketing technology. He was right, of course, which explains all those people arriving at the stadium in all the usual ways. Some came by autonomous cars that dropped them off a mile or more from the stadium, their fitness wearables synced to their car software, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1412,6,1491,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68683,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions\/68683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}