{"id":83,"date":"2008-05-07T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-05-07T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:04:53","slug":"how-to-talk-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/how-to-talk-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"How to talk about the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a talk I gave to the Phi Beta Kappa induction dinner at American University, 7 May 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I actually forgot to make the point I was planning to make about <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em>: the show is effectively serving as a speculative world take on &#8220;alien-ness&#8221; by continually blurring the human\/Cylon boundary. (That will make more sense after you listen to the podcast.)<\/p>\n<p>Note that if you download this instead of playing it in the pop-up player, you get navigation menus &#8212; and a bigger image.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5997\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/profptj\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PBK_2008.mov\" title=\"Play\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/black.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 225px;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_video.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"position: absolute; bottom:82px; left:170px; border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mov\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/profptj\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PBK_2008.mov\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=83-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/profptj\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PBK_2008.mov\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PBK_2008.mov\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a talk I gave to the Phi Beta Kappa induction dinner at American University, 7 May 2008. Note that I actually forgot to make the point I was planning to make about Battlestar Galactica: the show is effectively serving as a speculative world take on &#8220;alien-ness&#8221; by continually blurring the human\/Cylon boundary. (That will &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/how-to-talk-about-the-future\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profptj_podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kittenboo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}