{"id":43661,"date":"2012-02-18T03:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/could-these-be-the-toys-that-teach-your-children\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T03:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:10:36","slug":"could-these-be-the-toys-that-teach-your-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/could-these-be-the-toys-that-teach-your-children\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Could these be the toys that teach your children multiple languages, that help provide some interactivity to neglected children, that save the next generation from passive consumption of non-interactive broadcast media? Or will they fall into the Uncanny Valley, seem creepy to adults but desensitize children to the true humanity of living people, ushering in a generation of humans so comfortable with robots that the robots proliferate and ultimately\u2026 Well, you can imagine. Perhaps it\u2019s post-humanity that will feel like Elvis\u2019s swinging hips for our generation, so wrong to us but a much-loved part of the future for our children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/ex-pixar_geeks_building_siri-style_line_of_toys.php\">Ex-Pixar Geeks Building Siri-Style Line of Toys<\/a>, via tda (via <a href=\"http:\/\/new-aesthetic.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">new-aesthetic<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could these be the toys that teach your children multiple languages, that help provide some interactivity to neglected children, that save the next generation from passive consumption of non-interactive broadcast media? Or will they fall into the Uncanny Valley, seem creepy to adults but desensitize children to the true humanity of living people, ushering in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-43661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bmd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43661","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=43661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}