93 Quotes by Jamais Cascio

The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it’s ‘plausibly surreal’ – it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century – in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

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.

It’s remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we’d still face decades of warming.

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they’re covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

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.

Don’t expect to be able to upload your cat’s brain into your Roomba any time soon.

As useful as websites and journals are, there’s real value in books, too.