{"id":3715,"date":"2011-04-01T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2015-02-17T14:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:35:28","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3715","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be clones with glow-in-the-dark eyes<br \/>\nthat live under intersections and only pop-up<br \/>\nwhen the power goes out.<\/p>\n<p>After a night of heavy drinking, you\u2019ll be able to peel<br \/>\noff your face and send it to the cleaners<br \/>\nto have the wrinkles steamed out.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll be able to adjust the sound of your heartbeat,<br \/>\njust like the ring of a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll be virtual amusement parks<br \/>\nwhere you can drown in the milk of your first lover\u2019s thighs.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a feeling, you\u2019ll be able to push a <em>here<\/em> button<br \/>\nso you\u2019ll always know how to get back there.<\/p>\n<p>Overbearing parents will sneak into their child\u2019s brain at night<br \/>\nand pluck out the memory tape.<\/p>\n<p>Regular memory will begin to look like an old, beat-up car.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s inner landscape will be explored and charted.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of churches, we\u2019ll have giant radios<br \/>\nwith huge metallic antennas for steeples.<br \/>\nIf you sit on the coils, you can listen to god<br \/>\nwith your entire body, as his holy broadcast ricochets<br \/>\noff the aluminum walls of your bloodstream.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll still be human, for the most part.<br \/>\nOn some days, you\u2019ll still be able to hear the echo of the wind<br \/>\norganizing leaves in the distance.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3425\">Jeffrey McDaniel<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be clones with glow-in-the-dark eyes that live under intersections and only pop-up when the power goes out. After a night of heavy drinking, you\u2019ll be able to peel off your face and send it to the cleaners to have the wrinkles steamed out. You\u2019ll be able to adjust the sound of your heartbeat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-XV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10331,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions\/10331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}