93 Quotes by Jamais Cascio


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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

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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.

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

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    The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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