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're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
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 Image
Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological… — 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
Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative… — 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 Image
If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity. — 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 ability to… — 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 rot our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
