{"id":59901,"date":"2016-08-11T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59901"},"modified":"2016-08-08T09:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T14:07:29","slug":"brain-bleach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59901","title":{"rendered":"Brain Bleach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has wrought many wonders.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/people-could-soon-able-virtual-8587805\">this might be too much of a good thing:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BBC filmmaker Ted Harrison has claimed that it could just be a few short years before developments mean that they can create the feeling of human touch&#8230;the technology could be developed that would leave the door open to fans imitating sexual contact with their idols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, in a world where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/julieruvolo\/2011\/09\/07\/how-much-of-the-internet-is-actually-for-porn\/#23d2c64a61f7\">pornography eats up about a seventh of the internet&#8217;s capacity<\/a>, the idea that people will eventually use technology to simulate the wango tango is a dog sniffs dog story. \u00a0Duh; of course they will.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a sign that I do too much political blogging that the first thought that crossed my mind with this story was this question: \u00a0given the\u00a0fanatic loyalty liberals have for their politicians,\u00a0<em>if this technology had been available over this past year<\/em>, how often would Hillary (and Bill) Clinton\u00a0and\u00a0Bernie Sanders have been the subject of, um, transactions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has wrought many wonders. But this might be too much of a good thing: BBC filmmaker Ted Harrison has claimed that it could just be a few short years before developments mean that they can create the feeling of human touch&#8230;the technology could be developed that would leave the door open to fans imitating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59902,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59901\/revisions\/59902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}