Jason Silva

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

— Jason Silva

If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.

— Jason Silva

I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our…

— Jason Silva

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to…

— Jason Silva

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

— Jason Silva

We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even…

— Jason Silva

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative…

— Jason Silva

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

— Jason Silva

It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change,…

— Jason Silva

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea…

— Jason Silva

The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device…

— Jason Silva

Awe is the best drug in the world

— Jason Silva

Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological…

— Jason Silva

I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain…

— Jason Silva

I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have…

— Jason Silva

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by…

— Jason Silva

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the…

— Jason Silva

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

— Jason Silva

It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our…

— Jason Silva

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very…

— Jason Silva

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't…

— Jason Silva

You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven…

— Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

— Jason Silva

A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if…

— Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater…

— Jason Silva