{"id":20330,"date":"2013-09-18T22:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20330"},"modified":"2013-09-18T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:57:45","slug":"o-google-where-is-thy-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/o-google-where-is-thy-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"O Google, where is thy sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2013\/09\/18\/googles-next-big-challenge-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First they dominated the desktop. Now they\u2019re after the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>Google on Wednesday announced Calico, an ambitious new company that aims to solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity today: illness, aging [sic], diseases and ultimately death.<\/p>\n<p>If it were anyone but Google, the sheer audacity of the goal would be laughable. But coming from the company that redefined the Internet, funds projects to land on and mine the moon, and invented a self-driving car, it&#8217;s at least worth listening to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[We invest in] things that are a little more long-term and a little more ambitious than people normally would. More like moon shots.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;..]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week Apple announced a gold iPhone; what did you do this week, Google? Oh, we founded a company that might one day defeat death itself,\u201d they wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone should alert Larry Page to the fact that it&#8217;s all been done before.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus conquered death over 2000 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: First they dominated the desktop. Now they\u2019re after the afterlife. Google on Wednesday announced Calico, an ambitious new company that aims to solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity today: illness, aging [sic], diseases and ultimately death. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/o-google-where-is-thy-sting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[818],"class_list":["post-20330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}