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Jamais Cascio

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Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming. - Jamais Cascio
#Face
#Greenhouse Gases
#Now
#Right
#Stop
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. - Jamais Cascio
#Human
#Together
#Working Together
#World
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
#Elements
#Green
#Technology
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? - Jamais Cascio
#Change
#Live
#Political
#Sustainability
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real. - Jamais Cascio
#Almost
#Body
#Encounter
#Real
#Your Body
In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities - except when using the Web. Browsing the Web leaves digital tracks everywhere in the form of log files, and anyone who hosts a Web site can be easily traced. - Jamais Cascio
#Digital
#Free
#Money
#Speak
#Web
Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.' - Jamais Cascio
#Call
#Digital
#Physical
#Reality
#Space
Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it. - Jamais Cascio
#Internet
#Need
#Now
#Someone
#Web
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. - Jamais Cascio
#Awareness
#Gain
#New
#Open
#Potential
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. - Jamais Cascio
#Earth
#Energy
#Sustainability
#Water
I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept. - Jamais Cascio
#Admit
#Cloud
#Computing
#Concept
#Fan
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. - Jamais Cascio
#Complexity
#Intelligence
#Need
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' - Jamais Cascio
#Action
#Better
#Example
#Project
#Runway
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. - Jamais Cascio
#Critical
#Great
#Out
#Strategy
#Stress
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. - Jamais Cascio
#Ability
#Knowledge
#Memory
#Space
#Time
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. - Jamais Cascio
#Communication
#Every
#Method
#Unwanted
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. - Jamais Cascio
#Civilization
#Earth
#Human
#Water
#Wind
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
#Degree
#Environmental
#Ethics
#More
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles. - Jamais Cascio
#Business
#Design
#Environmental
#Fragile
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. - Jamais Cascio
#Animals
#Brain
#Human
#Just
#Social
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. - Jamais Cascio
#Resilience
#Survival
#Thrive
#Unexpected
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