{"id":31629,"date":"2011-02-20T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-the-simpsons-make-us-human-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:43:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:43:37","slug":"how-the-simpsons-make-us-human-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-the-simpsons-make-us-human-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"How The Simpsons make us human | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ae07_benzimmer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4088\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ae07_benzimmer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>If you&rsquo;re interested in language, computers, and human cognition, check out my brother <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/benzimmer.com\/\">Ben&rsquo;s<\/a> first <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/02\/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords\/71388\/\">piece<\/a> for the Atlantic, in which he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/02\/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords\/71388\/\">pops<\/a> the hype balloon that has inflated around the Watson computer&rsquo;s performance on &ldquo;Jeopardy.&rdquo; Suddenly, my stash of Simpsons trivia has become profound!<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/G87TM_QSAzvaab5Kjb4C2EGvICg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ae07_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/G87TM_QSAzvaab5Kjb4C2EGvICg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ae07_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ae07_ZDzJX7g-iFo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ae07_Rp8_9ban-mQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re interested in language, computers, and human cognition, check out my brother Ben&rsquo;s first piece for the Atlantic, in which he pops the hype balloon that has inflated around the Watson computer&rsquo;s performance on &ldquo;Jeopardy.&rdquo; Suddenly, my stash of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-the-simpsons-make-us-human-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}