Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries. — Jamais Cascio Climate Copy Share Image
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. — Jamais Cascio Brainpower Copy Share Image
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. — Jamais Cascio Change Copy Share Image
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… — Jamais Cascio Against Copy Share Image
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you… — Jamais Cascio Body Copy Share Image
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. — Jamais Cascio Complexity Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to… — Jamais Cascio Also Copy Share Image
Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it. — Jamais Cascio Clear Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might… — Jamais Cascio Able Copy Share Image
As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction.… — Jamais Cascio Awareness Copy Share Image
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its… — Jamais Cascio Accidents Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political… — Jamais Cascio Climate Copy Share Image
The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day… — Jamais Cascio Computer Copy Share Image
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research… — Jamais Cascio Approach Copy Share Image
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in… — Jamais Cascio Computer Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Alter Copy Share Image
Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming… — Jamais Cascio Able Copy Share Image
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as… — Jamais Cascio Arguing Copy Share Image
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to… — Jamais Cascio Clear Copy Share Image
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a… — Jamais Cascio Book Copy Share Image
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the… — Jamais Cascio About Copy Share Image
The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more… — Jamais Cascio Bigger Copy Share Image
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important… — Jamais Cascio Cognitive Copy Share Image
I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally… — Jamais Cascio Change Copy Share Image
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -… — Jamais Cascio Assume Copy Share Image
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive… — Jamais Cascio Development Copy Share Image
In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities -… — Jamais Cascio Anyone Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to… — Jamais Cascio Beast Copy Share Image
I do think that fashion may end up being the 'killer app' for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because… — Jamais Cascio About Copy Share Image
