{"id":29902,"date":"2016-09-07T06:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/how-robots-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-will-change-everything"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:18:05","slug":"how-robots-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-will-change-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/how-robots-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-will-change-everything","title":{"rendered":"How robots, drones and artificial intelligence will change everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-robots-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-will-change-everything.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley, or the Greater Bay Area, is the 18<sup>th<\/sup> largest economy in the world, more than half the size of Canada\u2019s economy and bigger than Switzerland, Saudi Arabia or Turkey. This is because the region has become the world leader in research and development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, software and virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoftware is eating the world,\u201d said Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen famously in 2011. It was controversial but prescient.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, software-driven machines and drones perform surgery, write news stories, compose music, translate, analyze, wage war, guard, listen, speak and entertain. The world\u2019s biggest box office hits \u2014 animated films such as \u201cFrozen\u201d or special effects in Hollywood blockbusters like \u201cStar Wars\u201d \u2014 are made using software.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactlab.net\/2016\/08\/31\/how-robots-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-will-change-everything\/\">http:\/\/www.impactlab.net\/2016\/08\/31\/how-robots-drones-and-ar...verything\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley, or the Greater Bay Area, is the 18th largest economy in the world, more than half the size of Canada\u2019s economy and bigger than Switzerland, Saudi Arabia or Turkey. This is because the region has become the world leader in research and development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, software and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,39,1506,42,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-economics","category-food","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902","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=29902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66332,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions\/66332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}