Jamais Cascio quotes

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. (Jamais Cascio)
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. View quote
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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? View quote
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Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services. View quote
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Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves. View quote
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By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today. View quote
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When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. View quote
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Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. View quote
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The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results. View quote
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Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control. View quote
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In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails. (Jamais Cascio)
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told. View quote
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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 troubling unforeseen consequences. View quote
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Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. View quote
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Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it. View quote
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Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives. View quote
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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 freedom of use. View quote
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The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough. View quote
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Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. View quote
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Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. View quote
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Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements. (Jamais Cascio)
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. View quote
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Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. View quote
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It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation. View quote
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As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence. View quote
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