{"id":33745,"date":"2017-01-23T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/yes-the-eerie-carl-sagan-prediction-thats-going-viral-is-real"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:30","slug":"yes-the-eerie-carl-sagan-prediction-thats-going-viral-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/yes-the-eerie-carl-sagan-prediction-thats-going-viral-is-real","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the Eerie Carl Sagan Prediction That\u2019s Going Viral Is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/yes-the-eerie-carl-sagan-prediction-thats-going-viral-is-real.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average person would have virtually no control over their political lives, and when we would all cling to superstitions? Yes, Sagan did predict just that. The screenshot you may have seen floating around social media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbquist\/status\/823358024723103744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is real<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcnees\/status\/823371505086197760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plenty<\/a> of people are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exitthelemming\/status\/823434121536012288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worried<\/a> that Carl was talking about our era.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/yes-the-eerie-carl-sagan-prediction-thats-going-viral-1791502520?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Paleofuture_facebook\">http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/yes-the-eerie-carl-sagan-pred...e_facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average person would have virtually no control over their political lives, and when we would all cling to superstitions? Yes, Sagan did predict just that. The screenshot you may have seen floating around social media is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59019,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions\/59019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}