{"id":31873,"date":"2016-11-12T02:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T10:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/8-technologies-in-westworld-and-when-well-see-them"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:56","slug":"8-technologies-in-westworld-and-when-well-see-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/8-technologies-in-westworld-and-when-well-see-them","title":{"rendered":"8 technologies in Westworld and when we\u2019ll see them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/westworld-main-780x525.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems like every television season plays host to a single show that takes over our cultural consciousness by coating modern fears in fantastical drama.<\/p>\n<p><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> taps into the cutthroat nature of modern politics, while <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> plays into our ever-present fear of a worldwide contagion. This year, with Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/08\/17\/elon-musk-ai-fear-werner-herzog\/\" target=\"_blank\">dire warnings<\/a> about the dangers of artificial intelligence, Siri and Alexa permeating our personal lives, and self-driving cars threatening to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trolley_problem\" target=\"_blank\">run down groups of children<\/a>, <em>Westworld<\/em> is posed to be that show.<\/p>\n<p><em>Westworld<\/em> is complex. It\u2019s that complexity, interwoven with mysteries and plot twists, that produces the hours of online speculation and wild fan theories that are the hallmark of anything worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/11\/11\/8-technologies-in-westworld-and-when-well-see-them\/\">http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/11\/11\/8-technologies-in-westworl...-see-them\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like every television season plays host to a single show that takes over our cultural consciousness by coating modern fears in fantastical drama. Game of Thrones taps into the cutthroat nature of modern politics, while The Walking Dead plays into our ever-present fear of a worldwide contagion. This year, with Elon Musk\u2019s dire [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873","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=31873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38513,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions\/38513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}