{"id":492,"date":"2018-04-09T12:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/?p=492"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:25:46","slug":"daniel-h-wilson-j-james-wood-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/2018\/04\/09\/daniel-h-wilson-j-james-wood-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel H. Wilson &#8211; J. James Wood Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Sci-fi Destroys the Future&#8230; Science Builds It&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, April 17, 2018\u00a0 7:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Atherton Union, Reilly Room\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BCR Credit and Co-Curricular Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction has a strong influence on real-world research and development, often shaping the look and behavior of new inventions. But, every new technological advance also works to shape authors&#8217; sci-fi imaginings. From dystopia to utopia to boring old reality, how does the exchange of ideas between Hollywood and academia help prepare humankind to imagine new and amazing futures?<\/p>\n<p>Daniel H. Wilson\u00a0is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling\u00a0<em>Robopocalypse<\/em>\u00a0and its sequel\u00a0<em>Robogenesis<\/em>, as well as seven other books, including\u00a0<em>How to Survive a Robot Uprising<\/em>,\u00a0<em>A Boy and His Bot<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Amped<\/em>. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His most recent novel,\u00a0<em>The Clockwork Dynasty<\/em>, was released on August 1st, 2017. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sci-fi Destroys the Future&#8230; Science Builds It&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 17, 2018\u00a0 7:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Atherton Union, Reilly Room\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BCR Credit and Co-Curricular Event<\/p>\n<p>Science fiction has a strong influence on real-world research and development, often shaping the look and behavior of new inventions. But, every new technological advance also works to shape authors&#8217; sci-fi imaginings. From [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9194094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9194094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}