{"id":873,"date":"2009-06-08T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-06-08T14:23:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T21:23:53","slug":"873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/873\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting baselines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Present-day man has recently become aware that history has been accelerating &#8211; and this at an accelerating rate. The present generation has been conscious of this increase of acceleration in its own lifetime; and the advance in man&#8217;s knowledge of this past has revealed, in retrospect, that the acceleration began about 30,000 years ago &#8230; and that it has taken successive &#8220;great leaps forward&#8221; with the invention of agriculture, with the dawn of civilization, and with the progressive harnassing &#8211; within the last two centuries &#8211; of the titanic forces of inanimate nature. The approach of the climax foreseen intuitively by the prophets is being felt, and feared, as a coming event. Its imminence is, today, not an article of faith; it is a datum of observation and experience.&#8221; &#8211; Toynbee, A.J. (1947), <em>A study of history<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Present-day man has recently become aware that history has been accelerating &#8211; and this at an accelerating rate. The present generation has been conscious of this increase of acceleration in its own lifetime; and the advance in man&#8217;s knowledge of this past has revealed, in retrospect, that the acceleration began about 30,000 years ago &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/873\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shifting baselines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}