{"id":72391,"date":"2017-09-07T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=72391"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:19:50","slug":"unexpected-futurist-ben-franklin-envisions-2776-and-cryonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/unexpected-futurist-ben-franklin-envisions-2776-and-cryonics","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Futurist: Ben Franklin envisions 2776 \u2014 and Cryonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pq71VHCMtF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episode\u2019s unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so it\u2019s not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he wrote a letter to a friend in which he lamented that he was born during the dawn of science.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social media:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/galacticpa\">Twitter<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/GalacticPublicArchives\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/galacticpublicarchives\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episode\u2019s unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so it\u2019s not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,2017,32,1509,20,1495,37,1522,42,224,1515],"tags":[2852,1485,2853,182,2133,2745,1753,704,2854,2858,2857,2859,2856,2855,2152,671,222,251,2846],"class_list":["post-72391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cryonics","category-education","category-entertainment","category-futurism","category-health","category-human-trajectories","category-innovation","category-media-arts","category-science","category-time-travel","tag-ben-franklin","tag-cryonics","tag-franklin","tag-future","tag-futurism","tag-futurist","tag-gpa","tag-history","tag-history-of-technology","tag-invention","tag-inventor","tag-politician","tag-preservation","tag-sci-fi","tag-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-technology","tag-transhumanism","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72391","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\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72400,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72391\/revisions\/72400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}