{"id":26226,"date":"2016-05-31T00:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/futurists-were-right-10-predictions-made"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:30","slug":"futurists-were-right-10-predictions-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/futurists-were-right-10-predictions-made","title":{"rendered":"Futurists Were Right: 10 Predictions Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/futurists-were-right-10-predictions-made.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world of money and finance is completely different than it was a century ago, with decentralized banks and electronic balances making it possible to access your funds from just about anywhere on Earth. Writer Edward Bellamy\u2019s 1888 novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Looking_Backward\">Looking Backward<\/a> was a huge success in its day, but it\u2019s best remembered for introducing the concept of \u201cuniversal credit.\u201d Citizens of his future utopia carry a card that allows them to spend \u201ccredit\u201d from a central bank on goods and services without paper money changing hands.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/tech\/concepts\/460223-futurists-were-right-10-predictions-made-sci-fi-writers-came-true\/\">http:\/\/www.tested.com\/tech\/concepts\/460223-futurists-were-ri...came-true\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of money and finance is completely different than it was a century ago, with decentralized banks and electronic balances making it possible to access your funds from just about anywhere on Earth. Writer Edward Bellamy\u2019s 1888 novel Looking Backward was a huge success in its day, but it\u2019s best remembered for introducing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26226","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=26226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67399,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26226\/revisions\/67399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}