{"id":26614,"date":"2016-06-08T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/future-humans-immortal-jobless-and-genius"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:00","slug":"future-humans-immortal-jobless-and-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/future-humans-immortal-jobless-and-genius","title":{"rendered":"Future humans: Immortal, jobless and genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/future-humans-immortal-jobless-and-genius.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will we do when money has no meaning? And if everyone gets life extension what will today\u2019s mega rich think and\/or do about it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>May you live in interesting times \u2013 A curse, origin unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the \u2018curses\u2019 usually attributed to ancient China, but frequently thrown around in today\u2019s society is \u2018May you live in interesting times\u2019, suggesting that living in turbulent times, no matter the cause, is somehow a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>True or not, there is no denying one thing \u2013 every individual fragment of time was interesting in its own right, and I\u2019ll be free to say that life has never been as interesting as it is today. Just look at what humans did in the last 40 years \u2013 first we got computers, then the internet, mobile phones, smartphones, high-speed internet, high-speed internet on smartphones, social media, virtual reality, augmented reality, drones, exoskeletons, prosthetic mind-controlled limbs\u2026 all of these things happened in less than a single lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thetranshumanist.news\/2016\/06\/07\/future-humans-immortal-jobless-genius\/#more-6903\">http:\/\/thetranshumanist.news\/2016\/06\/07\/future-humans-immort...#more-6903<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will we do when money has no meaning? And if everyone gets life extension what will today\u2019s mega rich think and\/or do about it? May you live in interesting times \u2013 A curse, origin unknown One of the \u2018curses\u2019 usually attributed to ancient China, but frequently thrown around in today\u2019s society is \u2018May you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11,1523,1499,1488,418,269,1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-drones","category-internet","category-life-extension","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26614","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67278,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26614\/revisions\/67278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}