{"id":96809,"date":"2019-09-29T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/why-the-future-will-be-an-unimaginable-utopia-beyond-our-wildest-imaginations"},"modified":"2019-09-29T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:22:59","slug":"why-the-future-will-be-an-unimaginable-utopia-beyond-our-wildest-imaginations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/why-the-future-will-be-an-unimaginable-utopia-beyond-our-wildest-imaginations","title":{"rendered":"Why The Future Will Be An Unimaginable Utopia Beyond Our Wildest Imaginations"},"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\/yCm9Ng0bbEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Humanity is moving ever faster towards a perfect world, but we\u2019ll probably never get all the way to perfect. A somewhat plausible alternative to this utopian future is that humanity destroys itself. Typical science fiction dystopias, on the other hand, are quite unrealistic, in my view.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Interstellar<\/em> is one of my favorite movies, but there\u2019s one thing about it I don\u2019t like; it\u2019s set in a dystopian future where sandstorms and blight make it increasingly difficult for humans to survive. Although science fiction is my favorite genre, it annoys me a bit that science fiction movies are often dystopian to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, news media also have a tendency to focus on the negative, so it\u2019s not surprising if you have a negative view of the world today. And with science fiction movies often being dystopian, it\u2019s not surprising if you have a negative view of the future as well. But if we look at the bigger picture \u2013 the trends \u2013 how the world is changing \u2013 we actually see that some very positive changes have been \u2013 and are \u2013 happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity is moving ever faster towards a perfect world, but we\u2019ll probably never get all the way to perfect. A somewhat plausible alternative to this utopian future is that humanity destroys itself. Typical science fiction dystopias, on the other hand, are quite unrealistic, in my view. Interstellar is one of my favorite movies, but there\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96809","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}