{"id":11739,"date":"2016-05-29T06:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2016-05-28T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T16:03:20","slug":"ray-kurzweil-on-optimism-and-pessimism-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11739","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil On Optimism And Pessimism In Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Tech Leadership Conference 2016, futurist, author and inventor Ray Kurzweil discusses the source of his technological optimism: what he calls the law of accelerating returns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AP_U8OjO3Rs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/news.communitech.ca\/news\/ray-kurzweil-looks-boldly-into-the-future-at-2016-tech-leadership-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/news.communitech.ca\/news\/ray-kurzweil-looks-boldly-into-the-future-at-2016-tech-leadership-conference\/\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=aL1JV_yCEIGU8gSN5K_QAQ\">http:\/\/news.communitech.ca\/news\/ray-k&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Tech Leadership Conference 2016, futurist, author and inventor Ray Kurzweil discusses the source of his technological optimism: what he calls the law of accelerating returns. Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/news.communitech.ca\/news\/ray-k&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[84,287,24],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future","tag-feature","tag-futurism","tag-transhumanism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11741,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions\/11741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}