Jamais Cascio

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

— Jamais Cascio

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

— Jamais Cascio

There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.

— Jamais Cascio

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

— Jamais Cascio

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

— Jamais Cascio

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

— Jamais Cascio

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

— Jamais Cascio

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.

— Jamais Cascio

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

— Jamais Cascio

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

— Jamais Cascio

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

— Jamais Cascio

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

— Jamais Cascio

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

— Jamais Cascio

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

— Jamais Cascio

In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.

— Jamais Cascio

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

— Jamais Cascio

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between…

— Jamais Cascio

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating…

— Jamais Cascio

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and…

— Jamais Cascio

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global…

— Jamais Cascio

I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens…

— Jamais Cascio

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning…

— Jamais Cascio

Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole…

— Jamais Cascio

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals…

— Jamais Cascio

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all…

— Jamais Cascio

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…

— Jamais Cascio

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there.…

— Jamais Cascio

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

— Jamais Cascio

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

— Jamais Cascio

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

— Jamais Cascio

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our…

— Jamais Cascio

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform…

— Jamais Cascio

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

— Jamais Cascio

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of…

— Jamais Cascio

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models…

— Jamais Cascio

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

— Jamais Cascio

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story…

— Jamais Cascio

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…

— Jamais Cascio

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

— Jamais Cascio

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

— Jamais Cascio