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Jason Silva

(1982) Futurist

84 quotes in 818 categories

Technology is, of course, a double‑edged sword; fire can cook our food but also burn us, Jason Silva notes. He says imagination lets us picture exciting futures and pull the present toward them. He also feels awe when looking at a beautiful cathedral, because its design shows how human creativity can be breathtaking.

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Jason Silva is a futurist, best known for Brazen.

Quick Facts About Jason Silva

Born: February 6, 1982
Profession: Futurist
Notable works: Brazen

About Jason Silva

Jason Luis Silva Mishkin is a Venezuelan-born American television personality, short filmmaker, futurist, and public speaker. He is known for hosting the National Geographic documentaries Brain Games and Origins. He has stated that his goal is to use technology to excite people about philosophy and science. The Atlantic describes Silva as "A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age". Silva writes and produces short films, is a former presenter on Current TV, and lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology, and humanity.

Quotes by Jason Silva

Awe is the best drug in the world

Awe

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To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

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Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

Abundance

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Everything that we design is designing us back

Design

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We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a…

Awe

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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

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I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Aesthetic

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

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I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

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Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

Cinema

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As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

Art

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If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?

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As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love,…

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My mom always used to tell me, "Do what you love and be kind." And I discovered video at a very early…

Age

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Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of…

Being

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We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue…

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We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed…

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

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I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and…

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I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and…

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Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you…

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

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

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Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is…

Art

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I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school,…

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Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the…

Biology

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I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that…

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Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so…

Access

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My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

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

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

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We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where…

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The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

Camera

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I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to…

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

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We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

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Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Ideas

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My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.

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

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I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

Boundaries

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Jason Silva by topic

Technology (22) Time (13) Thinking (13) People (13)