Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds,… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us. — Jason Silva Copy Share
If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity. — Jason Silva Copy Share
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to… — Jason Silva Copy Share
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our… — Jason Silva Copy Share
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst. — Jason Silva Copy Share
We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within… — Jason Silva Copy Share
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything… — Jason Silva Copy Share
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it. — Jason Silva Copy Share
It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I… — Jason Silva Copy Share
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture,… — Jason Silva Copy Share
The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe… — Jason Silva Copy Share
Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological neurons. That… — Jason Silva Copy Share
I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But… — Jason Silva Copy Share
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of… — Jason Silva Copy Share
