Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
nature recognize unlikely
Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
faces greenhouses greenhouse-gases
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
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.
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.
example action natural
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
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.
running people decision
But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.