Jason Silva
Jason Silva
Jason Luis Silvais a television personality, filmmaker, and public speaker. The Atlantic describes Silva as "A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth6 February 1982
CityCaracas, Venezuela
CountryUnited States of America
afraid creativity leverage push science solve technology together
We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.
compensate extend human kinds mean microscope
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
age pay scarcity
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
earth limits captains
We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.
technology subjectivity film
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
two minutes downloads
If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?
technology symbiosis tools
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
dream technology lag
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
art believe intelligent
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.
creativity ideas patterns
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
drug world overwhelmed
Awe is the best drug in the world
forever trying ephemeral
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.
serendipity unexpected circumstances
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
letting-go thinking forever
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'