{"id":91606,"date":"2019-06-04T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T08:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/its-2059-and-the-rich-kids-are-still-winning"},"modified":"2019-06-04T01:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T08:42:17","slug":"its-2059-and-the-rich-kids-are-still-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/its-2059-and-the-rich-kids-are-still-winning","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-2059-and-the-rich-kids-are-still-winning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editors\u2019 note: This is the first installment in a new series, \u201cOp-Eds From the Future,\u201d in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write op-eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years in the future. The challenges they predict are imaginary \u2014 for now \u2014 but their arguments illuminate the urgent questions of today and prepare us for tomorrow. The opinion piece below is a work of fiction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DNA tweaks won\u2019t fix our problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/27\/opinion\/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors\u2019 note: This is the first installment in a new series, \u201cOp-Eds From the Future,\u201d in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write op-eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years in the future. The challenges they predict are imaginary \u2014 for now \u2014 but their arguments illuminate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91606","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}