{"id":177147,"date":"2021-01-18T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=177147"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T07:40:33","slug":"weve-arranged-a-global-civilization-in-which-most-crucial-elements-profoundly-depend-on-science-and-technology-we-have-also-arranged-things-so-that-almost-no-one-understands-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/weve-arranged-a-global-civilization-in-which-most-crucial-elements-profoundly-depend-on-science-and-technology-we-have-also-arranged-things-so-that-almost-no-one-understands-science\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Carl Edward Sagan was a North American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, poet, and science communicator.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carl_Sagan_Planetary_Society.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-177148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carl_Sagan_Planetary_Society-220x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carl_Sagan_Planetary_Society-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carl_Sagan_Planetary_Society.jpeg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, poet, and science communicator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":177148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[1917,2255],"class_list":["post-177147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-carl-sagan","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}