{"id":22386,"date":"2017-12-31T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T11:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22386"},"modified":"2017-12-31T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T11:58:28","slug":"three-of-the-most-likely-technological-advances-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22386","title":{"rendered":"Three of the most likely technological advances of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jim Al-Khalili is one of my favourite scientists &#8211; able to explain complex ideas in simple and accessible form, especially quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s &#8216;Observer&#8221; colour supplement, he writes: &#8220;What about 2018? Surely the world won\u2019t look too different? All I can say for certain is there are three technologies we\u2019re going hear much more about next year, even more than we have done this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three technologies that he identifies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/31\/the-appliance-of-science-hope-and-fear-in-tomorrows-world\">this short article<\/a> are gene editing, artificial intelligence and advances in energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jim Al-Khalili is one of my favourite scientists &#8211; able to explain complex ideas in simple and accessible form, especially quantum physics. In today&#8217;s &#8216;Observer&#8221; colour supplement, he writes: &#8220;What about 2018? Surely the world won\u2019t look too different? All I can say for certain is there are three technologies we\u2019re going hear much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22388,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386\/revisions\/22388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}