{"id":28932,"date":"2017-09-11T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28932"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:41:24","slug":"wapo-how-silicon-valley-is-erasing-your-individuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28932","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/how-silicon-valley-is-erasing-your-individuality\/2017\/09\/08\/a100010a-937c-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.05f1b4a11383\">How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality<\/a> by Franklin Foer:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . .<br \/>\nMore than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They think they have the opportunity to complete the long merger between man and machine \u2014 to redirect the trajectory of human evolution. How do I know this? In annual addresses and town hall meetings, the founding fathers of these companies often make big, bold pronouncements about human nature \u2014 a view that they intend for the rest of us to adhere to. Page thinks the human body amounts to a basic piece of code: \u201cYour program algorithms aren\u2019t that complicated,\u201d he says. And if humans function like computers, why not hasten the day we become fully cyborg? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality by Franklin Foer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28933,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28932\/revisions\/28933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}