{"id":1435,"date":"2006-11-29T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2006-11-29T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T12:08:00","slug":"to-read-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"To read the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming fascinated with the prospect of predicting the future.  Not in any mystical or astrological sense &#8230; but it is inescapably true that the potential for tomorrow is written in signs that I can read today.  Specific examples of the tools available are:<\/p>\n<p>(a) population and demographic data<br \/>\n(b) Moore&#8217;s law and other technology growth \/ death observations<br \/>\n(c) previously observed cycles in technology and society.<\/p>\n<p>The summary plan:<\/p>\n<p>1) gather data.<br \/>\n2) Genius!<br \/>\n3) Profit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming fascinated with the prospect of predicting the future. Not in any mystical or astrological sense &#8230; but it is inescapably true that the potential for tomorrow is written in signs that I can read today. Specific examples of the tools available are:<\/p>\n<p>(a) population and demographic data (b) Moore&#8217;s law and other technology <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1435\">To read the future<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}