I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' — Jamais Cascio Action Copy Share Image
There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device. — Jamais Cascio Beautiful Copy Share Image
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. — Jamais Cascio Book Copy Share Image
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough. — Jamais Cascio Climate Copy Share Image
It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. — Jamais Cascio Communication 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 Copy Share Image
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. — Jamais Cascio Animals Copy Share Image
In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.' — Jamais Cascio Blended Copy Share Image
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between… — Jamais Cascio 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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole… — Jamais Cascio Access 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming. — Jamais Cascio Climate Copy Share Image
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of… — Jamais Cascio Action Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative. — Jamais Cascio Ability Copy Share Image
