{"id":16736,"date":"2018-09-06T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2018-09-06T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:45:09","slug":"the-human-fear-of-total-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/the-human-fear-of-total-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Human Fear of Total Knowledge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180906173930\/https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/06\/knowledge-compendia\/485507\/\">&#8220;The Human Fear of Total Knowledge&#8221;<\/a>, an excellent long article in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> for June 2016, which surveys the idea of &#8220;infinite libraries&#8221; in science fiction and fantasy.  <\/p>\n<p>Be warned that the article casually slips in a <em>huge<\/em> spoiler for two of the most outstanding episodes of the classic David Tennant years in <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, &#8220;Silence in the Library&#8221; \/ &#8220;Forest of the Dead&#8221;.  These run a story back-to-back across the two episodes, and are well worth watching as your first-ever <em>Doctor Who<\/em> episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Human Fear of Total Knowledge&#8221;, an excellent long article in The Atlantic for June 2016, which surveys the idea &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/the-human-fear-of-total-knowledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}