{"id":2587,"date":"2010-10-29T01:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/10\/29\/living-in-the-future\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T01:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:56:57","slug":"living-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/10\/29\/living-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/solar-system-missions2010-11.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"484\" alt=\"map of all current Solar System space missions\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEmily Lakdawalla has her monthly post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00002739\/\">state of space exploration<\/a> up once again and as always it&#8217;s an useful reminder that despite appearances, we are living in the future. One clue being sentences like &#8221; I&#8217;m enjoying following the relatively active Twitter feed of Voyager 2, which also mentions the position of Voyager 1 once a day&#8221;. Who would&#8217;ve guessed in the dying days of the twentieth century that a decade later we would get <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Voyager2\">status updates<\/a> from a robot space explorer at the edge of our Solar System, through a medium usually portrayed as only being good for shallow gossip or self promotion?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt makes silly little arguments that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/goodbye-tomorrow-hello-yesterday#comments\">the future died in 1998 because that&#8217;s when Disneyland embraced steampunk<\/a> seem even more facile than they already were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Lakdawalla has her monthly post on the state of space exploration up once again and as always it&#8217;s an useful reminder that despite appearances, we are living in the future. One clue being sentences like &#8221; I&#8217;m enjoying following the relatively active Twitter feed of Voyager 2, which also mentions the position of Voyager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,515,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointless-contrarianism","category-science","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}