{"id":1684,"date":"2026-04-11T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:01:42","slug":"a-useful-take-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"The current world, from a distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Sterling comes at everything sideways. Like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/bruces.medium.com\/whatever-happens-to-music-will-happen-to-ai-2026-9a4482a2a012\">\u201cWhatever Happens to Music Will Happen to AI\u201d<\/a>. New stuff I didn\u2019t know. Connections I hadn\u2019t made. What a useful guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Sterling comes at everything sideways. Like this: \u201cWhatever Happens to Music Will Happen to AI\u201d. New stuff I didn\u2019t know. Connections I hadn\u2019t made. What a useful guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}