{"id":22983,"date":"2016-03-01T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/in-the-future-youll-be-a-superhero-and-heres-how-youll-get-your-superpowers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:46:52","slug":"in-the-future-youll-be-a-superhero-and-heres-how-youll-get-your-superpowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/in-the-future-youll-be-a-superhero-and-heres-how-youll-get-your-superpowers","title":{"rendered":"In the Future You\u2019ll Be a Superhero and Here\u2019s How You\u2019ll Get Your Superpowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-the-future-youll-be-a-superhero-and-heres-how-youll-get-your-superpowers.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The knock on superheroes is that they\u2019re unrealistic. This isn\u2019t fair. Many superheroes have powers that we are close to or will be capable of engineering for ourselves. What\u2019s unrealistic is the way those powers are doled out. Radioactive spiders aren\u2019t going to make anyone strong any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Throw away those old origin stories and replace them with new scientific narratives and you\u2019ve got something closer to the truth, which is this: We\u2019re all going to have superpowers. Here\u2019s the order in which we\u2019re going to get them.<\/p>\n<p><b> Superhuman Marksmanship<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong> Superheroic Precedent:<\/strong> Hawkeye.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12187-in-the-future-you-ll-be-a-superhero-and-here-s-how-you-ll-get-your-superpowers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12187-in-the-future-you-ll-b...gn=organic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The knock on superheroes is that they\u2019re unrealistic. This isn\u2019t fair. Many superheroes have powers that we are close to or will be capable of engineering for ourselves. What\u2019s unrealistic is the way those powers are doled out. Radioactive spiders aren\u2019t going to make anyone strong any time soon. Throw away those old origin stories [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62597,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions\/62597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}