Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
technology reality garden
Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.
skills people facts
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.
atmosphere accepted notion
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
winning trying littles
Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.
goal survival resilience
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
today tomorrow
By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
design may becoming
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
community innovation together
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
beings dealing devote human portion
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
change humans involves order systems
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
eye world skeptical
In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
information easy individual
It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.
strong thinking long
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.