{"items": [{"author": "Lee", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/science-frontiers/10150198387836213/?comment_id=10150198446371213", "anchor": "fb-10150198446371213", "service": "fb", "text": "But your question, Jeff, is incomplete, because we are not only born into a world of science (did I become a scientist? electrician?), we are also born into a world of religion (and I did not become a believer), and of philosophy (go Socrates!!) and how many of us even go there... ?   But I know what you mean about missing something, or missing out on something: would humankind already be in a more progressed state if more of us took a chance/a leap of faith/stuck our necks out?", "timestamp": "1307937189"}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/science-frontiers/10150198387836213/?comment_id=10150198638021213", "anchor": "fb-10150198638021213", "service": "fb", "text": "Interesting questions, Jeff.  I would enjoy discussing them with you further.", "timestamp": "1307965474"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/science-frontiers/10150198387836213/?comment_id=10150198862636213", "anchor": "fb-10150198862636213", "service": "fb", "text": "@Lee: I'm confused.", "timestamp": "1307987227"}, {"author": "Lee", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/science-frontiers/10150198387836213/?comment_id=10150199044386213", "anchor": "fb-10150199044386213", "service": "fb", "text": "Sorry, but I hadn't understood that you were excerpting from a larger blog - after reading that content verbatim, now I must compose again...<br><br>Lee", "timestamp": "1308003397"}, {"author": "David&nbsp;Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/science-frontiers/10150198387836213/?comment_id=10150206599101213", "anchor": "fb-10150206599101213", "service": "fb", "text": "I find the technological/social frontiers more exciting than those physical ones. There was a time (I think) when we humans imagined traveling to other planets but couldn't possibly imagine the internet. But the internet is at least as exciting, in my view.", "timestamp": "1308863943"}, {"author": "David&nbsp;Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/science-frontiers/10150198387836213/?comment_id=10150206599876213", "anchor": "fb-10150206599876213", "service": "fb", "text": "I think Cory Doctorow has made comments along similar lines, related to the directions he sees (and wants) science fiction going in.", "timestamp": "1308864014"}]}