{"id":86600,"date":"2019-01-11T06:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/%e2%80%8bin-1983-isaac-asimov-predicted-the-world-of-2019-heres-what-he-got-right"},"modified":"2019-01-11T06:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T14:22:31","slug":"%e2%80%8bin-1983-isaac-asimov-predicted-the-world-of-2019-heres-what-he-got-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/%e2%80%8bin-1983-isaac-asimov-predicted-the-world-of-2019-heres-what-he-got-right","title":{"rendered":"\u200bIn 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted the world of 2019. Here\u2019s what he got right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSxMZBp-2Zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Isaac Asimov was one the world\u2019s most celebrated and prolific science fiction writers, having written or edited more than 500 books over his four-decade career. The Russian-born writer was famous for penning hard science fiction in his books, such as that in I, Robot, Foundation and Nightfall. Naturally, his work contained many predictions about the future of society and technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We\u2019re not living in space, but the Russian science-fiction author foresaw the rise of intelligent machines and the disruption of the digital age.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2019\/01\/in-1983-isaac-asimov-predicted-the-world-of-2019-heres-what-he-got-right-and-wrong\/\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2019\/01\/in-1983-isaac-asimov-...and-wrong\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Asimov was one the world\u2019s most celebrated and prolific science fiction writers, having written or edited more than 500 books over his four-decade career. The Russian-born writer was famous for penning hard science fiction in his books, such as that in I, Robot, Foundation and Nightfall. Naturally, his work contained many predictions about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86600","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}