Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
memories space radio
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
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.
goal survival resilience
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
future ideas work-out
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle
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.
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.
eye world skeptical
In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
wind civilization creating
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
cutting data clouds
Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.
stress strategy turns
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
development might information
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.