{"id":175,"date":"2002-12-03T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2002-12-04T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=175"},"modified":"2002-12-03T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2002-12-04T03:30:06","slug":"the-age-of-spiritual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/03\/the-age-of-spiritual-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Spiritual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Steven Johnson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenberlinjohnson.com\/movabletype\/archives\/000019.html\">post<\/a>, I knew I needed to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140282025\/cephasnet-20\/\">this<\/a> book by Ray Kurzweil, now I need to get &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0066214122\/cephasnet-20\/\">Prey: A Novel<\/a>&#8221; by Michael Crichton as well&#8230; I go through reading phases where I read all of a certain authors books in a short time&#8230; couple years ago now I read all of Michael&#8217;s books: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345370775\/cephasnet-20\/\">Jurassic Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345353145\/cephasnet-20\/\">Sphere<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345378482\/cephasnet-20\/\">Andromeda Strain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345354621\/cephasnet-20\/\">The Terminal Man<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345402871\/cephasnet-20\/\">Airframe<\/a>, among others&#8230; I think I had to leave all those books in California when we moved.. bummer. I&#8217;d love to pick one up right now and plow through it, especially since it&#8217;s 16 degrees and feels like 5 degrees according to weather.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steven Johnson&#8217;s post, I knew I needed to read this book by Ray Kurzweil, now I need to get &#8220;Prey: A Novel&#8221; by Michael Crichton as well&#8230; I go through reading phases where I read all of a certain authors books in a short time&#8230; couple years ago now I read all of Michael&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/03\/the-age-of-spiritual-machines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Age of Spiritual Machines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}