{"id":30846,"date":"2023-03-11T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2023-03-10T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:28:57","slug":"skynet-plays-the-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/11\/skynet-plays-the-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Skynet Plays the Long Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a conference this week, and one of the stars of the show was one of Boston Dynamic&#8217;s Spot robot dogs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/spotbd.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As you know, gentle reader, in the grim future, the last remnants of humanity use dogs to spot infiltrator terminators:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U5b92SoEGO8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Very clever of Skynet to send its agents back in time to get humanity to replace real dogs with robots before it unleashes the terminators.  Very clever indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a conference this week, and one of the stars of the show was one of Boston Dynamic&#8217;s Spot robot dogs. As you know, gentle reader, in the grim future, the last remnants of humanity use dogs to spot infiltrator terminators: Very clever of Skynet to send its agents back in time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30847,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions\/30847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}