Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
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Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.
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Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
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I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.
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Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
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It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.
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Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
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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.
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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.
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As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.
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We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me.