{"id":188321,"date":"2021-07-12T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=188321"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:57:23","slug":"the-saddest-aspect-of-life-right-now-is-that-science-technology-gathers-knowledge-faster-than-society-gathers-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/the-saddest-aspect-of-life-right-now-is-that-science-technology-gathers-knowledge-faster-than-society-gathers-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science\/technology gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 \u2013 6 Apr 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Asimov wrote hard science fiction.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-188322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-asimov.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crying-logo4.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-142102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crying-logo4-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crying-logo4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crying-logo4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crying-logo4.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 \u2013 6 Apr 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Asimov wrote hard science fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":188322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2255,304,461,2237],"class_list":["post-188321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-quotes","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188321","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=188321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}