{"id":24284,"date":"2016-04-05T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-to-think-exponentially-and-better-predict-the-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:41","slug":"how-to-think-exponentially-and-better-predict-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-to-think-exponentially-and-better-predict-the-future","title":{"rendered":"How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-think-exponentially-and-better-predict-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reshaping how you think about the future:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe future is widely misunderstood. Our forebears expected it to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past.\u201d \u2013Ray Kurzweil, <em>The Singularity Is Near<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We humans aren\u2019t great predictors of the future. For most of history, our experience has been \u201clocal and linear.\u201d Not much change occurred generation to generation: We used the same tools, ate the same meals, lived in the same general place.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/04\/05\/how-to-think-exponentially-and-better-predict-the-future\/\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/04\/05\/how-to-think-exponentia...he-future\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reshaping how you think about the future: \u201cThe future is widely misunderstood. Our forebears expected it to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past.\u201d \u2013Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near We humans aren\u2019t great predictors of the future. For most of history, our experience has been \u201clocal and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2018,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ray-kurzweil","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67813,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions\/67813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}