{"id":94459,"date":"2019-08-05T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/sci-fi-from-the-future"},"modified":"2019-08-05T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:22:47","slug":"sci-fi-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/sci-fi-from-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi From the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sci-fi-from-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(repeat) <\/em>Are you ready to defer all your personal decision-making to machines? Polls show that most Americans are uneasy about the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence. The possible misuse of genetic engineering also makes us anxious. We all have a stake in the responsible development of science and technology, but fortunately, science fiction films can help.<\/p>\n<p>The movies <em>Ex Machina<\/em> and <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> suggest where A.I. and unfettered gene-tinkering could lead. But even less popular sci-fi movies can help us imagine unsettling scenarios regarding over-population, smart drugs, and human cloning.<\/p>\n<p>And not all tales are grim. The 1951 film, <em>The Man in the White Suit<\/em>, weaves a humorous story of materials science run amok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(repeat) Are you ready to defer all your personal decision-making to machines? Polls show that most Americans are uneasy about the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence. The possible misuse of genetic engineering also makes us anxious. We all have a stake in the responsible development of science and technology, but fortunately, science fiction films can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1509,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94459","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=94459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}