Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
real body littles
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
exercise use research
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
fiction-stories might science-fiction
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
thinking agriculture water
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.
needs internet clear
Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.
wall mean action
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.
cat brain able
Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.
clouds fans cloud-computing
I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.
real book website
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
hard-work thinking practice
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
faces greenhouses greenhouse-gases
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
focus-and-concentration creative drug
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
needs decrease increase
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
technology differences one-day
The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.