{"id":3695,"date":"2009-11-13T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2009-11-13T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:46:46","slug":"cormac-interview-in-the-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/11\/13\/cormac-interview-in-the-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormac Interview in the WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572\">This interview<\/a> with Cormac McCarthy by the Wall Street Journal is well worth reading (Coincidentally(?) I just started rereading the Border Trilogy.)<br \/>\nThis amused me<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[CM:] Instead, I get up and have a cup of coffee and wander around and read a little bit, sit down and type a few words and look out the window.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>simply because I can attest that yes, indeed, this is what he does!  And, well, because my time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\">Santa Fe Institute<\/a> followed a similar pattern \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nOn the other hand here is a more ominous reason why I enjoyed (my too brief) time at SFI:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WSJ: What kind of things make you worry?<br \/>\nCM: If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won&#8217;t even be recognizable. We may indeed be part machine and we may have computers implanted. It&#8217;s more than theoretically possible to implant a chip in the brain that would contain all the information in all the libraries in the world. As people who have talked about this say, it&#8217;s just a matter of figuring out the wiring. Now there&#8217;s a problem you can take to bed with you at night. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interview with Cormac McCarthy by the Wall Street Journal is well worth reading (Coincidentally(?) I just started rereading the Border Trilogy.) This amused me [CM:] Instead, I get up and have a cup of coffee and wander around and read a little bit, sit down and type a few words and look out the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/11\/13\/cormac-interview-in-the-wsj\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cormac Interview in the WSJ&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,68,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-read-you-tweed","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}