{"id":10,"date":"2010-03-30T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-11-23T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:46:47","slug":"what-the-future-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/what-the-future-holds\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Future Holds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it really 2010? I&#8217;m a little disappointed that we don&#8217;t quite live in the &#8220;world of the future&#8221; that was promised to us in <em><a title=\"The Jetsons opening on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WpBqYcGqaaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Jetsons<\/a><\/em> or Disney&#8217;s <em><a title=\"You can get Tomorrowland on DVD. It's really great.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Tomorrowland-Beyond\/dp\/B0000BWVAI\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&amp;qid=1258005085&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomorrowland<\/a>. <\/em>No skies filled with flying cars. No whisking off to work in a jet pack. No robots doing our housework. What kind of 21st Century is this? C&#8217;mon. We don&#8217;t even have a decent video phone yet.<\/p>\n<p>Click the links for a status report on how the future is progressing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"But can it do drive-thru?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ElS9BKSsezw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flying Cars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Not exactly the Rocketeer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martinjetpack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jet Packs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"But can it do windows?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zD45oO0ZO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robot Housekeepers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Almost there...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2010\/02\/23\/ipad-sdk-support-for-front-facing-camera-camera-flash-zoom-and-video-conferencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video Phones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"No swimming pool just yet...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn10724-timetable-for-moon-colony-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moon Condos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nice, but not much chance of a Venusian wet t-shirt contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Vacations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How close are we to the world of tomorrow?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-thefuture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}