Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
reality enough happenings
The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.
real book website
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
tunnels wind strategy
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
faces greenhouses greenhouse-gases
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
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.
hard-work thinking practice
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
clouds fans cloud-computing
I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.
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.
example action natural
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
natural being-natural decades
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
information easy individual
It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.
communication messages method
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.