{"id":29326,"date":"2012-02-28T23:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=29326"},"modified":"2012-02-28T23:11:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:11:51","slug":"a-tedtalk-from-the-future-prometheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=29326","title":{"rendered":"A TEDTalk from the future   Prometheus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oV3zU7_Nw0A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nA<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/TED2023\/\"> TEDTalk from the future<\/a> as envisioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1446714\/\">Prometheus<\/a> director Ridley Scott&#8230; Or Tedtalk promoting a movie?? 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You decide! &#8220;Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade.Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124493,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=124493","url_meta":{"origin":29326,"position":0},"title":"A TEDTalk from the future   Prometheus","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"28\/02\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oV3zU7_Nw0A A TEDTalk from the future as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scott\u2026 Or Tedtalk promoting a movie?? 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