{"id":12646,"date":"2015-05-24T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/engineering-a-better-future-with-neal-stephenson\/"},"modified":"2015-05-24T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:24:56","slug":"engineering-a-better-future-with-neal-stephenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/engineering-a-better-future-with-neal-stephenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering a Better Future with Neal Stephenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidnaimon.tumblr.com\/post\/119506472049\/engineering-a-better-future-with-neal-stephenson\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">davidnaimon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/d2cc87e2c5fb7777828d29038ec2fc4c\/tumblr_inline_noosccFi5q1sdi6sd_540.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidnaimon.com\/2015\/05\/20\/neal-stephenson-seveneves\/\">Listen in<\/a> to my nearly hour-long chat with Neal Stephenson whose latest book is <i>Seveneves<\/i>. Our conversation touched on<br \/>\nso many great topics: why women are better equipped to survive long-term in<br \/>\nspace, why so many SFF novels and films create humanoids with race-based<br \/>\ncharacter traits and the limitations of this, advances in epigenetics and the<br \/>\nquestion of genome manipulation, whether or not humans are a part of nature and<br \/>\nthe merits of geoengineering to address climate change, human responses to<br \/>\nsudden vs. gradual catastrophes, the importance of celebrity scientists and the<br \/>\ndifference between what Carl Sagan was up against and what Neil deGrasse Tyson is,<br \/>\nthe role of science fiction in inspiring scientific advances, and much<br \/>\nmore.\u00a0 Hope you\u2019ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidnaimon.com\/2015\/05\/20\/neal-stephenson-seveneves\/\">tune in<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>davidnaimon: Listen in to my nearly hour-long chat with Neal Stephenson whose latest book is Seveneves. Our conversation touched on so many great topics: why women are better equipped to survive long-term in space, why so many SFF novels and films create humanoids with race-based character traits and the limitations of this, advances in epigenetics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}