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 Critical 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 Capacity 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
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
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. — Jamais Cascio Book 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
The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough. — Jamais Cascio Enough 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
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there.… — Jamais Cascio Accommodate Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Ability Copy Share Image
Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning… — Jamais Cascio Basically 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 Ecological 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
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals… — Jamais Cascio Back Copy Share Image
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 Fiction Copy Share Image
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. — Jamais Cascio Apocalyptic 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
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
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. — Jamais Cascio Able Copy Share Image
I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens… — Jamais Cascio Calls Copy Share Image
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 Aspect Copy Share Image
There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device. — Jamais Cascio Beautiful Copy Share Image
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all… — Jamais Cascio About 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
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
