{"id":67348,"date":"2018-01-18T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67348"},"modified":"2018-01-17T19:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:39:29","slug":"wsj-technology-that-will-change-your-life-in-2018-electric-cars-cryptocurrencies-and-artificial-intelligence-are-poised-for-leaps-forward-and-amazon-will-get-even-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67348","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Technology That Will Change Your Life in 2018: Electric cars, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence are poised for leaps forward. And Amazon will get even bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a weird year. In 2017, technology spread its tentacles into our lives in ways we couldn\u2019t have imagined\u2014see the\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/weve-been-breached-inside-the-equifax-hack-1505693318\">Equifax hack<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russian-ads-targeted-facebook-users-by-profile-1509563354\">Russia\u2019s manipulation of Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amazon-to-buy-whole-foods-for-13-7-billion-1497618446\">Amazon\u2019s purchase of everyone\u2019s favorite overpriced supermarket<\/a>. In 2018, expect the invasion to get even weirder\u2014and more aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence will touch so many of the gadgets and services we use, we won\u2019t even realize that machines, not humans, are behind them. Hackers will continue to pursue the institutions that hold our most sensitive information. The consolidation of power by the big four\u2014Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple\u2014will have an even bigger impact on what we see on our screens and what we buy.<\/p>\n<p>And while you won\u2019t necessarily pay for your new electric car with Bitcoin, you\u2019ll continue to hear more about it and other cryptocurrencies. (Yes, you\u2019ll soon consider buying an electric car.)<\/p>\n<p>Tech is more powerful than ever. To help you prepare, here\u2019s our annual roundup of the tech that will affect us in the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/finding-faith-at-folsom-prison-1515715399\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a weird year. In 2017, technology spread its tentacles into our lives in ways we couldn\u2019t have imagined\u2014see the\u00a0Equifax hack,\u00a0Russia\u2019s manipulation of Facebook, and\u00a0Amazon\u2019s purchase of everyone\u2019s favorite overpriced supermarket. In 2018, expect the invasion to get even<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67348\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67350,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67348\/revisions\/67350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}