{"id":4647,"date":"2016-01-03T04:38:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=270149"},"modified":"2016-01-06T01:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T01:45:13","slug":"feeling-like-things-are-speeding-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/01\/03\/feeling-like-things-are-speeding-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling like things are speeding up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_270150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 342px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-270150\" title=\"aphelion-perihelion-earth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/aphelion-perihelion-earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"344\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: NASA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That may be because they are: Earth is rushing along right now at about 30 kilometers per second (almost 19 miles per second) &#8212; moving about a kilometer per second faster than when Earth will be farthest from the Sun on July 4, notes Bruce McClure of <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/earth-comes-closest-to-sun-every-year-in-early-january\" ><em>EarthSky Tonight<\/em><\/a>.*<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s the accelerating pace of new developments? Tech predictions for 2016 are ranging from &#8220;Intelligent agents that will talk to you actively, reminding you of things that are happening and giving you a unique form of augmented reality\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/gallery\/my-2016-tech-predictions\/slide\/3\/\" >TechCrunch<\/a>) and &#8220;3-D printing&#8217;s inflection point: 3-D printed guns, 3-D printed vital organs&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/ilan-mochari\/seismic-shifts-change-business.html\" >Inc.<\/a>) to &#8220;The Hyperloop will become fully operational&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3018713\/it-industry\/my-biggest-tech-predictions-for-2016.html\" >Computerworld<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are <em>your<\/em> predictions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head on over to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/forums\/\" >Forums<\/a> &#8212; where folks are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/forums\/topic\/2016-predictions-will-bump-this-thread-in-late-december\" >making predictions for 2016<\/a> ranging from &#8220;Amazon and Walmart will begin experimental delivery of parcels using drones&#8221; (Wiccidor) to &#8220;Low cost, bendable hi-def displays will make significant inroads in consumer electronics&#8221; (beachmike) &#8212; and make yours!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll do a reality check on Jan. 2, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>* The reason: today (January 2) our planet Earth reached its closest point to the Sun for this year &#8212; Earth\u2019s\u00a0perihelion. Earth is now about 5 million kilometers (3 million miles) closer to the Sun than it will be on July 4 at aphelion. &#8220;Though not responsible for the seasons, Earth\u2019s closest and farthest points to the sun do affect seasonal <\/em><em>lengths,&#8221; McClure explains.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That may be because they are: Earth is rushing along right now at about 30 kilometers per second (almost 19 miles per second) &mdash; moving about a kilometer per second faster than when Earth will be farthest from the Sun on July 4, notes Bruce McClure of EarthSky Tonight.* Or maybe it&rsquo;s the accelerating pace [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,57,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-singularityfutures","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}