{"id":735,"date":"2001-01-10T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2001-01-10T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/01\/10\/interview-with-sci-fi-writer-bruce\/"},"modified":"2001-01-10T23:00:22","modified_gmt":"2001-01-10T23:00:22","slug":"interview-with-sci-fi-writer-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/01\/10\/interview-with-sci-fi-writer-bruce\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Sci-Fi Writer Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecompany.com\/articles\/web\/print\/0,1650,9060,00.html\">Interview with Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sterling: Because I think boredom is one of the great massive stabilizing forces of the universe. It&#8217;s like gravity. I think, What would happen if I could turn my IQ up to 450? I would be a completely different kind of entity. I would understand things much more thoroughly, and I would be really thrilled by it for, I don&#8217;t know, maybe six months. Then I would have a routine of some kind. I would be a posthuman entity with an IQ of 450 who had a routine. And I would be bored a lot of the time. And my behavior would be mostly habitual, and embarrassing things would happen to me. In other words, I wouldn&#8217;t be some kind of shining godlike creature. I might be super intelligent, but, you know, I&#8217;d probably have diarrhea. A super intelligent being with acne. I would still have a toothache. My wife would also have an IQ of 450, and we would have domestic arguments that were on the level of super genius but still about housework.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling &#8220;Sterling: Because I think boredom is one of the great massive stabilizing forces of the universe. It&#8217;s like gravity. I think, What would happen if I could turn my IQ up to 450? I would be a completely different kind of entity. I would understand things much more thoroughly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}