{"id":21642,"date":"2018-08-27T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/People-see-what-they-want-to-see-and-there-are-plenty-of-SF-speculations-going-on-today-that-tell-us-more-about"},"modified":"2018-08-27T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:34:28","slug":"people-see-what-they-want-to-see-and-there-are-plenty-of-sf-speculations-going-on-today-that-tell-us-more-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/08\/27\/people-see-what-they-want-to-see-and-there-are-plenty-of-sf-speculations-going-on-today-that-tell-us-more-about\/","title":{"rendered":"People see what they want to see, and there are plenty of SF speculations going on today that tell us more about&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>People see what they want to see, and there are plenty of SF speculations going on today that tell us more about today&#8217;s concerns and those of the authors than about the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Warning: Paywall\/get-the-app annoyingness on Flickr.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting historical document. A 1964 Playboy interview with Asimov, Pohl, Anderson, Serling, Bradbury, Budrys, Clarke, Sturgeon, Blish, Heinlein\u2026 Dang they could and should have then included Judith Merrill, C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, but still, kinda fascinating. Naturally, where they were on-target, you feel a sense of awe.  As you\u2019ll wince at some myopia and failure to see what should have been obvious. And an unfortunate cartoon. But hey, we\u2019ve made progress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42665617@N07\/5890605945\/in\/album-72157627091727742\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42665617@N07\/5890605945\/in\/album-72157627091727742\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42665617@N07\/5890605945\/in\/album-72157627091727742\/\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42665617@N07\/5890605945\/in\/album-72157627091727742\/<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        People see what they want to see, and there are plenty of SF speculations going on today that tell us more about&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/08\/27\/people-see-what-they-want-to-see-and-there-are-plenty-of-sf-speculations-going-on-today-that-tell-us-more-about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}