{"id":3867,"date":"2016-05-22T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/22\/bill-gates-and-neal-stephenson-drive-into-the-future-in-a-tesla-in-vr\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T06:27:15","slug":"bill-gates-and-neal-stephenson-drive-into-the-future-in-a-tesla-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/22\/bill-gates-and-neal-stephenson-drive-into-the-future-in-a-tesla-in-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates and Neal Stephenson drive into the future in a Tesla in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gatesneal8e\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzIxLzRiL2dhdGVzbmVhbDhlLjJjYzc5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/5c6b7aba\/202\/gatesneal8e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Bill+Gates+and+Neal+Stephenson+drive+into+the+future+in+a+Tesla+in+VR&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F21%2Fbill-gates-neal-stephenson-tesla-vr%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F21%2Fbill-gates-neal-stephenson-tesla-vr%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Science fiction meets technology in the very best way in this short three-minute video posted by Microsoft co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bill-gates\/?utm_campaign=BD-Feedlyl&amp;utm_cid=BD-Feedlyl\">Bill Gates<\/a> earlier this week<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/20\/hyper-reality-keiichi-matsuda\/\">This is a video of our future, and it&#8217;s scary as hell<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/Books\/Seveneves\">the video<\/a>, Gates takes off his tech icon hat and becomes a fan as he meets up with famed science fiction author <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/12\/16\/neal-stephenson-magic-leap\/\">Neal Stephenson<\/a> to talk about the latter&#8217;s latest novel <i>Seveneves<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As we mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/17\/bill-gates-summer-reading-2016\/\">earlier this week<\/a>, the book is on Gates&#8217; summer reading list this year. On his website, Gates gives a brief review of the book, writing, &#8220;<i>Seveneves<\/i> reminded me of all the things I love about science fiction. It is a great novel to get lost in, learn from, and think about. More than anything else, it has me thinking I should get back to reading sci-fi again.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/21\/bill-gates-neal-stephenson-tesla-vr\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/virtual-reality\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Virtual Reality<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/vr\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Vr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tesla\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tesla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/neal-stephenson\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/science-fiction\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Science Fiction<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/StPFK2Q2lVg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction meets technology in the very best way in this short three-minute video posted by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates earlier this week SEE ALSO: This is a video of our future, and it&#8217;s scary as hell In the video, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/22\/bill-gates-and-neal-stephenson-drive-into-the-future-in-a-tesla-in-vr\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}