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
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Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
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There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.
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As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
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I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.
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My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.
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I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.
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Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.
If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.
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Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
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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.
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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.